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Webster 1913 Edition
Prosody
Pros′o-dy
,Noun.
[L.
prosodia
the tone or accent of a syllable, Gr. [GREEK] a song sung to, or with, an accompanying song, the accent accompanying the pronunciation; [GREEK] to + [GREEK] song, ode: cf. F. prosodie
. See Ode
.] That part of grammar which treats of the quantity of syllables, of accent, and of the laws of versification or metrical composition.