The Track of the Repetend: Syntactic and Lexical Repetition in Modern Poetry |
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... pair itself ( as when pair members are related through polyptoton ) , sometimes the change occurs in relation to the following pair . The poem " Jumbo " is a model of these sometimes identical , sometimes varied relations in repeated ...
... pair itself ( as when pair members are related through polyptoton ) , sometimes the change occurs in relation to the following pair . The poem " Jumbo " is a model of these sometimes identical , sometimes varied relations in repeated ...
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... pair which stands out as an obvious couple ( and so alerts us to the ongoing pairing system ) is " singsonged and singsonged , " the compound verb phrase of the sentence . This " paired " verb phrase , which should stress action , is ...
... pair which stands out as an obvious couple ( and so alerts us to the ongoing pairing system ) is " singsonged and singsonged , " the compound verb phrase of the sentence . This " paired " verb phrase , which should stress action , is ...
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... pair in the stanza , is the derivational repetend " clawing " and " clawed , " in which the ad- jectival participial becomes the verbal operator of the sentence - recapitulating the previous reduction of being to ac- tion . The next ...
... pair in the stanza , is the derivational repetend " clawing " and " clawed , " in which the ad- jectival participial becomes the verbal operator of the sentence - recapitulating the previous reduction of being to ac- tion . The next ...
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