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prosody vs cadence

cadence vs prosody

prosody and cadence both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
prosody Yes No No No
cadence Yes No No No
As nouns, cadence is a hyponym of prosody; that is, cadence is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than prosody:
  • prosody: (prosody) a system of versification
  • cadence: (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
Other hyponyms of prosody include beat, measure, meter, metre, sprung rhythm.
prosody (noun) cadence (noun)
the study of poetic meter and the art of versification a recurrent rhythmical series
the patterns of stress and intonation in a language the close of a musical section
(prosody) a system of versification (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
Difference between prosody and cadence

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