The rhythmic flow of sounds in speech or music, or a concluding musical phrase that provides closure.
From Latin 'cadentia', meaning 'falling', derived from 'cadere' (to fall). Originally referred to the 'falling' of the voice at the end of a sentence, later extended to musical contexts in the 14th century.
Cadence is what makes the difference between robotic speech and poetry, between noise and music. It's the invisible architecture that gives language its power to move us - presidents master it to inspire nations, while poets use it to make words dance off the page into our hearts.
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