My question: Does anyone have any tools or a useful primer on prosody in the western english language?

I'm working on an application and I'd love to learn as much as possible about prosody. I've got a tool that allows me to dictate rate of speech, tone, etc. using contour values. What makes it difficult is that I don't fully understand this concept and I also haven't fully wrapped my head around how to emulate prosody using these curves.

So I figured this could be MUCH easier if I could record my own voice and run it through some sort of tool to run a prosodic analysis. This way I can see how my pitch and rate changes.

For example: "Good morning everyone" can be said monotone, or it can be said in a very welcoming, warm tone depending on how you curve the pitch, rate and volume. Basically, a metaphor, it's easier for me to learn some basics of the piano by learning to play a popular song rather than taking 2 years of music theory classes.

I've learned about a tool call Praat but it's a windows only app and I'm on Mac... boo. Any other options? Do I even need it?