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Diacope stanza

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 stanza built around repeated immediate repetition (diacope) of a word or phrase for emphasis.

Detailed Definition
A Diacope stanza features the rhetorical repetition of a word or phrase with one or more intervening words (e.g., “Bond, James Bond”), creating rhythmic emphasis and psychological fixation; in poetry, diacope builds intensity through spaced recurrence, as in Tennyson’s “Break, break, break” or the insistent refrains of Ginsberg’s “Howl,” where the gap between repetitions amplifies emotional resonance.
Example
Example in poetry:
Stanza using diacope (repetition with words between): “Bond, James Bond”; “Free at last, free at last”; Shakespeare’s “Put out the light, and then put out the light”; Modern: protest poetry with rhythmic refrains
Additional Notes
Stanza using diacope (word repetition with words between). Emphatic structure. Related to epizeuxis. Study tip: Track the repeated word's evolving context and meaning through the stanza.
Also Known As
repetitive stanza stichic diacope
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