rhythm vs prosody

prosody vs rhythm

rhythm and prosody both are nouns.

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

As nouns, prosody is a hypernym of rhythm; that is, prosody is a word with a broader meaning than rhythm:

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

Other hypernyms of rhythm include guide, template, templet, inflection.

rhythm (noun)	prosody (noun)
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 study of poetic meter and the art of versification
recurring at regular intervals	the patterns of stress and intonation in a language
(architecture) the repetitive use of a group of visual elements to establish a recognizable pattern	(prosody) a system of versification
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 rhythm and prosody

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