The Track of the Repetend: Syntactic and Lexical Repetition in Modern Poetry |
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... simple refrain , or it can work against these themes , in which case it will be called a com- plex refrain . All the possible semantic functions of refrains hinge upon this distinction . Such a distinction is primarily , though not ...
... simple refrain , or it can work against these themes , in which case it will be called a com- plex refrain . All the possible semantic functions of refrains hinge upon this distinction . Such a distinction is primarily , though not ...
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... Refrains : Simple , Complex , Cumulative , Antithetical Modern Refrain Usage : The Disjunctive Refrain SIMPLE REFRAIN Since Chaucer , the simple refrain has seemed to be the type best suited to the brief English lyric . Used for its ...
... Refrains : Simple , Complex , Cumulative , Antithetical Modern Refrain Usage : The Disjunctive Refrain SIMPLE REFRAIN Since Chaucer , the simple refrain has seemed to be the type best suited to the brief English lyric . Used for its ...
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... simple refrain heightens the awareness of its thematic fitness , here the repetition thwarts the anticipation of such fitness and postpones thematic resolution . With each suc- cessive repetition , the balance between refrain and stanza ...
... simple refrain heightens the awareness of its thematic fitness , here the repetition thwarts the anticipation of such fitness and postpones thematic resolution . With each suc- cessive repetition , the balance between refrain and stanza ...
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