The Track of the Repetend: Syntactic and Lexical Repetition in Modern Poetry |
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... context , we see Augustine's paradox coming into play . Even if an author were to begin a work with a sentence and then repeat it identically , the second occurrence would be modified by the fact that we are encountering the sentence ...
... context , we see Augustine's paradox coming into play . Even if an author were to begin a work with a sentence and then repeat it identically , the second occurrence would be modified by the fact that we are encountering the sentence ...
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... context of spring has taken on a most unfortunate semantic value , and with it has overwhelmed and demolished that context . In the Winter Song , the reverse is the case . The vivid description of winter's trials culminates in a refrain ...
... context of spring has taken on a most unfortunate semantic value , and with it has overwhelmed and demolished that context . In the Winter Song , the reverse is the case . The vivid description of winter's trials culminates in a refrain ...
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... context of this line an " open " context , but the entire passage is devoid of the lyricism which is usually associated with refrain poems . Ten lines later the refrain returns , this time more percussively . It returns again and again ...
... context of this line an " open " context , but the entire passage is devoid of the lyricism which is usually associated with refrain poems . Ten lines later the refrain returns , this time more percussively . It returns again and again ...
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