prosodist
- noun
- /ˈprɒzədɪst/
- Specialized
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prosodista
- In her workshop, the prosodist explained how emphasis on certain syllables can change the meaning of a line.
- prosodist substitution
- prosodist foot-substitution
- prosodists who attend
Examples
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We have foot-substitution prosodists, who count syllables and stresses and employ the foot; and we have temporal/musical prosodists, who beat time and use musical notation.
Academic text (1993) -
For instance, in the 1869 Rules of Rhyme, the versifier and prosodist Tom Hood claimed, "Sound is the test of rhyme, and the ear the only judge."
Academic text (2017) -
While individual studies of verse have been plentiful and their results substantial, modern prosodists have consistently failed to advance our general understanding of verse experience.
Academic text (1993) -
We have foot-substitution prosodists, who count syllables and stresses and employ the foot; and we have temporal/musical prosodists, who beat time and use musical notation.
Academic text (1993) -
Here, Swinburne does separate the homonymic rime riche, as prosodists such as Dobson mandated.
Academic text (2017) -
Eclectic prosodists like Sidney Lanier and Gerard Manley Hopkins dot a landscape clearly in need of historicization.
Academic text (2016) -
In contrast to generalizations by modernist tastemakers and the simplifications of prosodists such as George Saintsbury, author of the expansive three-volume
Academic text (2016) -
Thus, foot-substitution prosodists, with their versificational descriptions, claim a workable theory of rhythm; or grammetrists, with their syntactic descriptions, claim an adequate account of verse experience.
Academic text (1993) -
Other modern approaches to verse have claimed that a theory of linguistic prosody alone is a full verse theory (e.g., the intonationalists, grammetrists, and many free-verse prosodists).
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A skilled prosodist can analyze the rhythm and intonation used in famous poems.
Synonyms
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A person who marks the stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem
A person who studies the rhythm of poems
A person who studies and explains the rhythm of poems
How Skilled
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Prosodist comes from the word prosody, which goes back to Greek parts meaning 'toward' and 'song', and you can see the same 'song' root in ode, a kind of poem. So a prosodist studies the 'song', rhythm and voice of speech and poetry.