prosody vs rhythm

rhythm vs prosody

prosody and rhythm both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
prosody	Yes	No	No	No
rhythm	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, rhythm is a hyponym of prosody; that is, rhythm is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than prosody:

prosody: the patterns of stress and intonation in a language
rhythm: the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements

Other hyponyms of prosody include intonation, modulation, pitch contour, caesura, enjambement, enjambment, accent, emphasis, stress, speech rhythm.

prosody (noun)	rhythm (noun)
the study of poetic meter and the art of versification	natural family planning in which ovulation is assumed to occur 14 days before the onset of a period (the fertile period would be assumed to extend from day 10 through day 18 of her cycle)
the patterns of stress and intonation in a language	recurring at regular intervals
(prosody) a system of versification	(architecture) the repetitive use of a group of visual elements to establish a recognizable pattern
	the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements
	the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
	an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs

Difference between prosody and rhythm

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