Cadence (poetry)
In poetry, cadence describes the fall in pitch of the intonation of the voice, and its modulated inflection with the rise and fall of its sound. == Etymology == From Middle French cadence, and from Italian cadenza, and from Latin cadentia, with the meaning "to fall."" == Cadence in poetry == In poetry cadence describes the rhythmic pacing of language to a resolution and was a new idea in 1915 used to describe the subtle rise and fall in the natural flow and pause of ordinary speech where the strong and weak beats of speech fall into a natural order restoring the audible quality to poetry as a spoken art.