Definitionn. (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
Last update: July 27, 2015
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Poetry should be recited in slow rythmic cadence. [Please select]
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We were happy when our fast-talking professor started to speak in a slow cadence we could understand. [Please select]
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When my son gets excited, he speaks in a rapid cadence. [Please select]
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To be sure the same sound was that very moment perhaps being heard all over the seas, from hundreds of whalemen's look-outs perched as high in the air; but from few of those lungs could that accustomed old cry have derived such a marvellous cadence as from Tashtego the Indian's. [Please select]
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They were looking at HIM; they strained their ears to miss no cadence of his voice. [Please select]
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He ceased and the cadence of the boy's voice trembled and was sad. [Please select]
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Behind them came La, swaying too; but not in unison with the chanted cadence. [Please select]
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The unfamiliar cadence of the Zapoteca gave them a complete touch of foreignness. [Please select]
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It was a long, thin, wavering cry that died off with indescribable melancholy in its cadence. [Please select]
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The pathetic cadence of the slender-throated tones moved Abbott more than he cared to show. [Please select]
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In the silent darkness their cadence held an ineffable melancholy. [Please select]
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