Prosody

Prosody is an linguistic term used to describe the way speech sounds and provides information that transcription can’t provide. In poetry this is very important because it is linked to the rhythm.

Rhythm on the other hand is very important because it shows how smoothly a part of text in poetry could go. If the rhythm is not good even the non-experienced reader will feel that something with the poem is wrong and it doesn’t sound like it should.

Prosody describes not only the speech sounds but things like loudness, the length of the different syllables and others. Sometimes it describes the change of the velocity and it is very important in poetry because generally it is all about the rhythm, the tone (where comes the frequency of the sound too), the intonation (that puts accents on different words) and the lexical stress.