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Date-coded line

Structure
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 line that encodes or explicitly references a specific date—through numerals, historical allusion, or calendrical imagery—as part of its meaning.

Detailed Definition
A date-coded line embeds a specific calendar date within its wording—through numerals, words, or contextual clues—serving as a temporal signature that links the poem to a real-world event, anniversary, or biographical moment.
Example
Example in poetry:
Date-coded line carrying hidden chronological clue; A line reading “In ’45 the world awoke”; Using Roman numerals for months as line openings; Direct reference to chronological markers in line
Additional Notes
A Date-coded line is a line of verse that contains a hidden reference or code for a specific date, often numerical or through a special acrostic/cipher.
Also Known As
Date-marked line Chronological line Time-coded verse Chronogrammatic line
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