Glossary of Poetic Terms
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Prosody
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The principles of metrical structure in poetry. Poetry founder Harriet Monroe discusses prosody as part of the natural rhythms of the universe imitated by art and "dead poets" from which "grammarians began to make rules for poets yet to come." See meter.
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