protagonists

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And it was led by one of the greatest prosodists in rock’n’roll.

From Slate • May 28, 2013

In English verse also the syllable has sometimes been regarded as the unit, but for the most part only by a few poets and prosodists of the late sixteenth, the seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries.

From The Principles of English Versification by Baum, Paull Franklin

But can the ear really measure the intervals with any approximation to certainty, so that prosodists, for instance, can agree that a given poem is written in a definite metre?

From A Study of Poetry by Perry, Bliss

The iambic trimeter in Greek consists of three dipodies or six iambs; as used by English prosodists it consists of three iambs.

From The Principles of English Versification by Baum, Paull Franklin

But in truth the task of inventing an adequate system for notating the rhythm of prose, and securing a working agreement among prosodists as to a proper terminology, is almost insuperable.

From A Study of Poetry by Perry, Bliss