Name the dominant meter of the following quatrain :The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,The lowing herd winds slowly o’er the lea,The plowman homeward plods his weary way,And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

In linguistics, prosody is the study of elements of speech that are not individual phonetic segments but which are properties of syllables and larger units of speech, including linguistic functions such as intonation, stress, and rhythm. Such elements are known as suprasegmentals. (Source: Wikipedia)

Two forms of prosody are typically distinguished: 'affective prosody' refers to the expression of emotion in speech, whereas 'linguistic prosody' relates to the intonation of sentences, including the specification of focus within sentences and stress within polysyllabic words.