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echoing verse

Device
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

Verse that repeats sounds, words, or phrases to create resonance

Detailed Definition
Echoing verse employs repetition, sonic resonance, or mirrored phrasing to create a sense of reverberation, memory, or cyclical time; it may use anaphora, refrain, or internal rhyme to suggest haunting, persistence, or the inescapability of past experience.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” echoing verse appears in the repeated “Nevermore”; Dylan Thomas’ “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” uses echoing verse through the recurring “Rage, rage against the dying of the light”; Walt Whitman’s “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” employs echoing verse with the refrain “Loved! loved! loved!”; Christina Rossetti’s “Echo” uses echoing verse to mimic ghostly repetition of lost love
Additional Notes
Echoing verse repeats sounds, phrases, or structures with variation to create resonance; it differs from simple refrain by evolving the repeated element to show change or deepening meaning.
Also Known As
Resonant stanza Repetitive lyric Reverberant line Reciprocal stanza recurring line Resonant verse reverberant verse Reverberating poem
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