prosody has definitions from the fields of verse,writing,rhetoric,prosody
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[ noun ] (rhetoric) the patterns of stress and intonation in a language

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(H. A. Gleason, "Review of African language studies...)

This restates the already widely known facts in_terms_of prosodies .

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[ noun ] (prosody,verse,writing) a system of versification
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[ noun ] (verse,writing) the study of poetic meter and the art of versification

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