The Track of the Repetend: Syntactic and Lexical Repetition in Modern Poetry |
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... pattern showing perfect mirror symmetry . Then , if we divide the six tercets into three groups of two members each , more detaled patterns emerge which are set into the overall de- sign . Common to each of the three groups is the ...
... pattern showing perfect mirror symmetry . Then , if we divide the six tercets into three groups of two members each , more detaled patterns emerge which are set into the overall de- sign . Common to each of the three groups is the ...
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... pattern of anadiplosis is yoked by violence into the larger syntactic context of a strophe , as in the passage from " Ash Wednesday " : Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now ...
... pattern of anadiplosis is yoked by violence into the larger syntactic context of a strophe , as in the passage from " Ash Wednesday " : Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now ...
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... pattern of two questions to a stanza is followed in both of these , but the terminal question , summative , avoids the anaphoric " what of the . . . ” formulation ; hence , while fulfilling the stanzaic pattern of question , it achieves ...
... pattern of two questions to a stanza is followed in both of these , but the terminal question , summative , avoids the anaphoric " what of the . . . ” formulation ; hence , while fulfilling the stanzaic pattern of question , it achieves ...
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