The Track of the Repetend: Syntactic and Lexical Repetition in Modern Poetry |
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... identical would clearly involve an identity on all three levels of language - the phonic , the syntactic , and the semantic ( if indeed we can speak of the identity of two utterances other than theoretically ) . Such an identity would ...
... identical would clearly involve an identity on all three levels of language - the phonic , the syntactic , and the semantic ( if indeed we can speak of the identity of two utterances other than theoretically ) . Such an identity would ...
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... identical to it nor is it separate from it . It is in a state of analogy having those common features which are isolated in the rec- ognition of the first member . Recalling that the first and second members are not identical [ italics ...
... identical to it nor is it separate from it . It is in a state of analogy having those common features which are isolated in the rec- ognition of the first member . Recalling that the first and second members are not identical [ italics ...
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... identical imperative . The staccato succession of these metrically and syntactically identical stanzas secures a swift , clean closure ; it is a means by which Stevens frequently terminates his poems . In fact , almost all of the poems ...
... identical imperative . The staccato succession of these metrically and syntactically identical stanzas secures a swift , clean closure ; it is a means by which Stevens frequently terminates his poems . In fact , almost all of the poems ...
Contents
Repetition Times Trace | 1 |
History and Structure | 45 |
Refrain Types Exemplified | 63 |
Copyright | |
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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