When an attempt is made to carry the investigation into greater detail, more difficult and from a prosodic point of view really crucial problems present themselves.
But a frequent kind of repetition which is truly a prosodic phenomenon and which, though primarily an element of stanzaic form, has often an effect analogous to those just described, is the refrain.
Probably the most disputed point in all prosodic theory is the relative importance of time (duration, syllabic length) and stress (accent) in English verse.
The poet's ear and his sixth prosodic sense enable him to make his verse a perfect vehicle of his meaning and emotion.
When his prosodic effects are obvious they lose their power; we can see how the trick is done and we do not marvel.
There is, to be sure, an arcanum ofprosodic theory which is the province of specialists.
Mr. Bayfield claims for his books the authority justly due from forty-five years' application of prosodicprinciples to English verse.
He is aware that an alternative scansion may in some cases be correct, but does not sufficiently realise that any prosodic system is but an artificiality, formed to explain, and not dictate, the infinitely variable rhythms of poetry.
They are ruder in form; and alternately rhymed, or distinguished from prose only by a certain irregular but prosodic measure, sometimes trochaic, but mostly dactylic.
The Mirror as a whole has bibliographical and prosodic rather than literary interest.
But he has some piquancy of phrase, and is particularly noticeable for the variety, and to a certain extent the accomplishment, of his prosodic experiments--a point of much importance for the time.
Its prosodic puzzle and profit have been indicated in the Introduction, and it might sometimes run more easily.
The unusual prosodic interest of this piece, and its companion, has been explained in the Introduction.
The problem is scarcely one for dogmatic decision, but it is one of some interest, and of itself entitles Cleveland to attention of the prosodic kind.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prosodic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: iambic; measured; metric; metrical; rhythmic; rhythmical; scanning
