- meter, metre, measure, beat, cadence - (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
--1 is a kind of poetic rhythm, rhythmic pattern, prosody
--1 has particulars:catalexis; scansion; common measure, common meter; metrical foot, foot, metrical unit - cadence - the close of a musical section
--2 is a kind of passage, musical passage
--2 has particulars: plagal cadence, amen cadence- cadence, cadency - a recurrent rhythmical series
--3 is a kind of rhythmicity
- cadence, cadency - a recurrent rhythmical series