melodics
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]melodics (uncountable)
- The branch of music theory that deals with pitch, harmony, and melody.
- The analysis of poetry in terms of the use of meter, rhyme, alliteration, and repetition to create a lyrical sound when read aloud.
- 2016, Peter Nicholls, Peter Boxall, Thinking Poetry, page 25:
- melodics cannot be of central interest in the case of long poems.