Local writing instrument

Cadence — a prose rhythm workbench

Every sentence becomes a beat: wide for long, narrow for short, ticked where the clauses break. Tap a beat to find it in the text. Edit the text and the rhythm moves with you.

Rhythm strip tap a beat · arrow keys move between beats

Line chart of sentence lengths in order.

Length contour, sentence by sentence

Focused beat nothing selected

Tap any beat above to bring its sentence here.

    Audition optional synthesized percussion, starts only when you press play

    Low thump per sentence, light tick per clause break. No speech, no microphone, no files — just tones made in this tab.

    Text edit freely — the strip follows

    Shape of the draft

      This describes the shape of your sentences — counts, spans, and patterns. It is not a rating, and there is no such thing as a correct contour here.