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PROSODY (Gr. rpovwSta)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 457 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PROSODY (Gr. rpovwSta) , the See also:art of versification (see See also:VERSE), including as its three divisions See also:accent, breathing and quantity. Prosody is the mode in which the discipline is deter-See also:mined by which successive syllables are so arranged as to See also:form verse. The Latin name for it was accentus.

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