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Echo enjambment

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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

Enjambment that carries forward a repeated phrase or echo across line breaks, extending its resonance and delaying closure for emphasis.

Detailed Definition
Echo enjambment occurs when a word or phrase at the end of one line is immediately repeated or mirrored at the beginning of the next, creating a sonic and syntactic echo that enhances flow, tension, or thematic continuity; this technique blurs line boundaries while reinforcing key ideas through auditory recurrence, as in “dark / dark” or “gone— / gone forever.”
Example
Example in poetry:
In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “Let us go then, you and I” echoes in later lines via echo enjambment; Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” repeats “I” across enjambed lines as echo enjambment; Contemporary poet Claudia Rankine uses echo enjambment to loop racial trauma; Echo enjambment appears in Tennyson’s “Ulysses” (“to strive, to seek”); In “Song of Myself,” Whitman uses cataloging as echo enjambment.
Additional Notes
A specific type of enjambment (line break) where the next line echoes or directly repeats a key word or phrase from the end of the preceding line, blurring the break and creating a sense of continuation or emphasis; a sophisticated rhythmic device.
Also Known As
Enjambment echo Reflective enjambment Repeated line-break Echoing run-on Allusive enjambment
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