Rhythmical series

Usage examples of cadence.

The slow, solemn enunciation of each word by a choir of hoary anchorets rolled in majestic cadence through the precipices of the mountains, and died away in the distant ravines in echoes of heavenly harmony.

While Robespierre deliberately worked alone, cultivating, Jean-Jacques-like, the austere isolation of the prophet, the Girondins played off each other like members of a string quartet, the cadence and tempo of their transcendent rhetoric rising and falling, swelling and fading with the effect they had on each other.

The cadential effect is generally produced by two or three chords, the last one of which is called the cadence-chord, and stands, when the cadence is perfectly regular, upon an accented beat of the final measure.

They walked to the measured cadence of the chant and to the drumbeat and the cymbal clash, toward steps that rose out of trailing weed and the encrusting shells of small things that live in shallows.

The stars some cadence use, Forthright the river flows, In order fall the dews, Love blows as the wind blows: Blows!

On the other hand, the copying of the manner of speaking, of accent, cadence, and ring of the voices of adults was surprising, although echolalia proper almost ceased or appeared again only from time to time.

Not only was there no other voice to be heard, but there was a certain evenness of flow and cadence, unquestioning and unhesitating, rather as though Occula might be telling a story or delivering a speech.

When subjects talk for their guides, rather than guides speaking for themselves through the subject, usually the cadence of speech is not as broken.

As Hayward listened, the tapping sped up, then slowed down, following its own secret cadence.

The voice slowly faded, while the melody passed through sublime downward ripples of semitones to a plagal cadence.

These enharmonic passages recur to satiety, and the abuse of the plagal cadence deprives it of its religious solemnity.

I would sooner snift thy farthing candle than sustain that nasal cadence ever more.

A baleful almost-music, that of the tuneless cadences of an untutored orchestra repercussing in an ecstatic agony of echoes against the sounding boards of the mountains, lured us into the village square where we discover them twanging, plucking and abusing with horsehair bows a wide variety of crude stringed instruments.

And so rare and moving were those airs and tales that one might guess their wonders from the faces of those who listened, even though the words came to common ears only as strange cadence and obscure melody.

Instead, he focuses on word choice and on the cadences of his sentences, two of his natural writerly gifts.