The Track of the Repetend: Syntactic and Lexical Repetition in Modern Poetry |
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... clauses to- gether , postponing closure by holding off the balancing " then " - clause as long as possible , and consequently heightening the de- pendency of the repeated syntactic structure ( e.g. , " When I Heard the Learn'd ...
... clauses to- gether , postponing closure by holding off the balancing " then " - clause as long as possible , and consequently heightening the de- pendency of the repeated syntactic structure ( e.g. , " When I Heard the Learn'd ...
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... clauses , becomes the first part of a compound subject of the embedded clause . Against the intensified background of these interweaving clauses enchained at line - end , various forms of polyptoton and anaphora intensify line ...
... clauses , becomes the first part of a compound subject of the embedded clause . Against the intensified background of these interweaving clauses enchained at line - end , various forms of polyptoton and anaphora intensify line ...
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... clause or phrase ( thus the weak or absent enjambments ) . Like Eliot , Stevens takes the long Whitmanesque line with its long phrases or clauses and refracts it , segmenting the phrase or clause into smaller units and breaking a ...
... clause or phrase ( thus the weak or absent enjambments ) . Like Eliot , Stevens takes the long Whitmanesque line with its long phrases or clauses and refracts it , segmenting the phrase or clause into smaller units and breaking a ...
Contents
Repetition Times Trace | 1 |
History and Structure | 45 |
Refrain Types Exemplified | 63 |
Copyright | |
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Common terms and phrases
analogous anaphoric appears appositional becomes beginning called clause close comes complex construction context contrast creates critical death definition effect elements Eliot equivalence example fact figures final force formal four frame function given gives groupings hand human idea identical implies initial involves kind language later less lexical lyric meaning medial metaphor mind mode modified nature noun opening pair parallelism passage pattern phonic phrase play poem poem's poet poetic poetry position possible predication present Press question reader reading reference refrain refrain line relation repeated repetends repetition rhetorical seems seen semantic sense sentence shift similar simile song sound speech stanza statement Stevens Stevens's strophe structure suggests symmetry syntactic syntactic repetition syntax takes terminal things thought tion turn units University verse Whitman whole wind