The Track of the Repetend: Syntactic and Lexical Repetition in Modern Poetry |
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... final re- frain , which is neither an answer to a question nor a dramatization of the situation between the lovers , has the force of supercilious affirmation : the " no , no , no " has become a sign of the lady's virtue , since in ...
... final re- frain , which is neither an answer to a question nor a dramatization of the situation between the lovers , has the force of supercilious affirmation : the " no , no , no " has become a sign of the lady's virtue , since in ...
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... final stanza reverts to the heroic world of " Connolly and Pearse , " since they , too , were " Hearts with one purpose alone . " The problem motivating this final stanza is the similarity between the gentle - yet - strong , stoically ...
... final stanza reverts to the heroic world of " Connolly and Pearse , " since they , too , were " Hearts with one purpose alone . " The problem motivating this final stanza is the similarity between the gentle - yet - strong , stoically ...
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... final participle makes us " end as we begun " by recalling the very final word of the poem : SKIRTING She hers , he his my walk , my rest , PURSUING . This almost imperceptibly delicate chiasmus is , to me , emblematic of the way in ...
... final participle makes us " end as we begun " by recalling the very final word of the poem : SKIRTING She hers , he his my walk , my rest , PURSUING . This almost imperceptibly delicate chiasmus is , to me , emblematic of the way in ...
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