The Track of the Repetend: Syntactic and Lexical Repetition in Modern Poetry |
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... closure : Refrain Refrain Refrain However , the very symmetry of terminal refrain works against the overall closure of the poem , as Barbara Herrnstein Smith has pointed out . Like the stanzaic model , the terminal refrain model implies ...
... closure : Refrain Refrain Refrain However , the very symmetry of terminal refrain works against the overall closure of the poem , as Barbara Herrnstein Smith has pointed out . Like the stanzaic model , the terminal refrain model implies ...
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... closure . The disjunctive refrain , of course , presents a spe- cial case by adding a semantic basis to the refrain's inherent formal effect of anti - closure . Predictably , the disjunctive refrain is the one type which is seldom found ...
... closure . The disjunctive refrain , of course , presents a spe- cial case by adding a semantic basis to the refrain's inherent formal effect of anti - closure . Predictably , the disjunctive refrain is the one type which is seldom found ...
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... closure in line 19 ( " The work is done , ” etc. ) where Yeats aptly anticipates the debunking refrain of the ghost . But since " he " has evidently still not heard the ghost , of what use is the terminal modification of the refrain ...
... closure in line 19 ( " The work is done , ” etc. ) where Yeats aptly anticipates the debunking refrain of the ghost . But since " he " has evidently still not heard the ghost , of what use is the terminal modification of the refrain ...
Contents
Repetition Times Trace | 1 |
History and Structure | 45 |
Refrain Types Exemplified | 63 |
Copyright | |
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anadiplosis analogous anaphoric Antonio appositional Auden Augustine axis becomes cataphoric chiastic clause closure complex construction context contrast creates discourse disjunctive refrain Dylan Thomas elements emphasis enjambed epanalepsis equivalence example fact final formal Four Quartets function grammatical groupings heightening identical implies initial refrains involves Jakobson kind language lexical repetition line-end lyric meaning ment metaphor metrical mind mode modified morphemic noun pair paradigmatic paradox parallelism paranaphora participial passage pattern perception phonic poem poem's poet poetic poetry polyptoton position possible predication prepositional phrases prose prosodic Prospero question reader refrain line relation repeated repetends rhetorical rhyme rhythmic seems semantic sense sentence sequence shift simile simple refrain song speech stanza stanzaic Stevens's strophe structure suggests syllables symmetry syntactic repetition syntax T. S. Eliot temporal tercet things tion traductio verb W. B. Yeats W. H. Auden Wallace Stevens Whitman Whitmanesque Wimsatt wind words Yeats Yeats's