The Track of the Repetend: Syntactic and Lexical Repetition in Modern Poetry |
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... wind pass like a fire , Eyes in the island see Ships anchor off the bay . Shall I run to the ships With the wind in my hair , Or stay till the day I die And welcome no sailor ? Ships , hold you poison or grapes ? Hands grumble on the ...
... wind pass like a fire , Eyes in the island see Ships anchor off the bay . Shall I run to the ships With the wind in my hair , Or stay till the day I die And welcome no sailor ? Ships , hold you poison or grapes ? Hands grumble on the ...
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... winds shifts " to " The wind shifts like this : " ) only underscores the similarity between groupings . And the absence of any syntactic bridges between groupings has the same effect , augmenting the staccato rhythms of the poem . The ...
... winds shifts " to " The wind shifts like this : " ) only underscores the similarity between groupings . And the absence of any syntactic bridges between groupings has the same effect , augmenting the staccato rhythms of the poem . The ...
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... Wind Shifts " are made explicit here with the statement and sub- sequent inversion of the AB lines in 7 and 8 , both couples coin- ciding with the beginning of the tercet . Yet Stevens has more leeway in the tercet form for the ...
... Wind Shifts " are made explicit here with the statement and sub- sequent inversion of the AB lines in 7 and 8 , both couples coin- ciding with the beginning of the tercet . Yet Stevens has more leeway in the tercet form for the ...
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