Both Uses of
cadence
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 13 chapter version
- The mere cadence of the sentences, the subtle monotony of their music, so full as it was of complex refrains and movements elaborately repeated, produced in the mind of the lad, as he passed from chapter to chapter, a form of revery, a malady of dreaming, that made him unconscious of the falling day and the creeping shadows.†
Chpt 8 *cadence = rhythm or recurring pattern
- But a chance tone of color in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings strange memories with it, a line from a forgotten poem that you had come across again, a cadence from a piece of music that you had ceased to play,—I tell you, Dorian, that it is on things like these that our lives depend.†
Chpt 13
Definition:
rhythm or recurring pattern of sounds or movements