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Cabbage

Food And Drink
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

A leafy vegetable associated with kitchens, gardens, and plain sustenance. It can bring earthiness and realism to a poem.

Detailed Definition
Cabbage is a useful poetic counterweight to luxurious fruit or wine because it suggests the practical, repetitive work of feeding a household. Its layered leaves may resemble folded cloth, weathered hands, or green pages tightly closed around a pale heart. Poets can use cabbage to evoke winter gardens, market carts, immigrant meals, and thrift. Its strong smell may also make domestic scenes feel honest rather than idealized, grounding lyric beauty in ordinary hunger.
Example
Example in poetry:
Cabbage can bring plainness, poverty, or comic realism into a poem; A poet might write, “The cabbage boiled all afternoon, filling the house with winter”; Its layered leaves can become a metaphor for concealment or family history; “She peeled the cabbage leaf by leaf, finding no answer at its center”; “Cabbages silvered by frost stood like patient heads in the field” creates a rural visual image
Additional Notes
Cabbage adds plain, earthy realism. Its layered leaves can support comparisons involving protection, poverty, gardens, or endurance.
Also Known As
Cole
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