Top Prosody Quotes

Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs.

I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job

Prosody Definition

(n.) That part of grammar which treats of the quantity of syllables, of accent, and of the laws of versification or metrical composition.

In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the source of life, the treacherous sun, and no poetry adorns...