manner of speaking, delivery, speech - your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally; "his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"; "her speech was barren of southernisms"; "I detected a slight accent in his speech"

intonation, pitch contour, modulation - rise and fall of the voice pitch

caesura - a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line

enjambement, enjambment - the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause

stress, accent, emphasis - the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable"

speech rhythm, rhythm - the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements; "the rhythm of Frost's poetry"

metrics, prosody - the study of poetic meter and the art of versification

poem, verse form - a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines

versification - the form or metrical composition of a poem

cadence, metre, meter, measure, beat - (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

sprung rhythm - a poetic rhythm that imitates the rhythm of speech

poetics - study of poetic works

poetic rhythm, rhythmic pattern, prosody - (prosody) a system of versification

cadence, metre, meter, measure, beat - (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

iambic - of or consisting of iambs; "iambic pentameter"

dactylic - of or consisting of dactyls; "dactylic meter"

spondaic - of or consisting of spondees; "spondaic hexameter"

trochaic - of or consisting of trochees; "trochaic dactyl"