The Track of the Repetend: Syntactic and Lexical Repetition in Modern Poetry |
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... symmetry is repeated symmetry , which cannot be self - locking . The concept of repeated symmetry becomes clearer when contrasted with that of mirror symmetry , the kind which obtains when the poem is framed by a repeated line or group ...
... symmetry is repeated symmetry , which cannot be self - locking . The concept of repeated symmetry becomes clearer when contrasted with that of mirror symmetry , the kind which obtains when the poem is framed by a repeated line or group ...
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... symmetry cannot suggest any such point of turning . Lacking that centralizing principle , repeated symmetry implies the movement forward into yet another mod- ule . The distinction between these two types of symmetry explains why ...
... symmetry cannot suggest any such point of turning . Lacking that centralizing principle , repeated symmetry implies the movement forward into yet another mod- ule . The distinction between these two types of symmetry explains why ...
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... symmetry . They are : A. Foregrounded Symmetry . The refrain may stand in definite relief to the rest of the stanza , as in the ballad or nursery rhyme . It may be placed before or after each stanza , or it may come in the middle . It ...
... symmetry . They are : A. Foregrounded Symmetry . The refrain may stand in definite relief to the rest of the stanza , as in the ballad or nursery rhyme . It may be placed before or after each stanza , or it may come in the middle . It ...
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