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Adlestrop

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Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Adlestrop: A Gloucestershire village and railway station, immortalized in Edward Thomas's 1917 poem "Adlestrop," evoking a moment of tranquil, pastoral stillness during an unexpected train stop.

Detailed Definition
Adlestrop is the place name at the center of Edward Thomas’s poem. Readers may need to identify it because the poem turns a brief train stop at this small English station into a memorable scene of stillness and sound.
Example
Example in poetry:
Edward Thomas opens “Adlestrop” with “Yes. I remember Adlestrop”; Adlestrop is an English railway station, made memorable by an unscheduled stop; “The name, because one afternoon” shows how place-names can trigger memory; The quiet station becomes a symbol of lost prewar rural England and fleeting attention
Additional Notes
The name in the line is a specific place, and many readers will not know where Adlestrop is without looking it up.; Found in the poem, Adlestrop by Edward Thomas
Also Known As
English Village Countryside Rural Haven
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