The music of the character Gerontius is sometimes in speech rhythm (similar to recitative) but often very lyrical.

The sudden unnatural gesture destroyed the normal speech rhythm.

The free speech rhythm gave Shakespeare more freedom for experimentation.

She did not have to speak for me to know her voice, her speech rhythms, the breathiness between phrases.

A different speaker buzzed in an erratic speech rhythm.

Part of it is very middle range, speech rhythms and the like.

In most English verse, the metre can be considered as a sort of back beat, against which natural speech rhythms vary expressively.

Their speech rhythms struck me as beyond cool, almost like jazz improvisations, and I longed to join in.

Help me tailor the words more to your particular speech rhythms, for example.

Alexie tilted her head, eyes narrowing, perhaps recognizing something about Pal's speech rhythm.