List of 426 Sets of Synonyms - How they Differ - Total of 2307 Words - 331

SYNONYMS: rhythm, meter, cadence.
These nouns are compared as they denote the regular patterned ebb and rise of accented and unaccented sounds, especially in music, speech, or verse.

Rhythm, the most comprehensive, suggests the recurring flow of alternating elements: the rhythm of the seasons; the rhythms of life. Rhythm was described as melody deprived of its pitch.
Meter applies in poetry to any of various measured rhythmic patterns (elegiac meter) and in music to the combining of rhythmic pulses into measures of equal time value (duple meter).
Cadence refers especially to the fall of the voice in speech (end a sentence with a cadence) and to balanced rhythmic flow, as in poetry (the cadence of the sea).