[wpears]

You're quite correct that cadence is diminished, though that can be mitigated by adding a delay to each word based on its length.

[pkghost]

There is, in fact, a delay based on word characteristics, but it's not just length that matters, it's the uniqueness of a word's shape. Spritz has a nice blog post on the topic: http://www.spritzinc.com/blog/.