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feedback verse

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

Poetry employing recursive patterns where later elements reflect back on earlier ones

Detailed Definition
Feedback verse is poetry structured so that later lines or stanzas retroactively alter the meaning of earlier ones, establishing a dialogic or recursive relationship within the text; this self-modifying form challenges linear progression, inviting readers to continually revise understanding as the poem unfolds.
Example
Example in poetry:
John Cage’s mesostics create feedback verse through chance operations; Jackson Mac Low’s diastics generate feedback through procedural constraints; contemporary poets like Allison Cobb use environmental data as feedback verse; digital poets use algorithmic feedback to generate text; CAConrad’s (Soma)tic rituals create feedback between body and text; Ocean Vuong’s letters to his mother function as emotional feedback verse.
Additional Notes
Feedback verse uses repetition or echoing structures to feed back on itself, emphasising cycles or recursion.
Also Known As
Self-referential verse Recursive poetry Loop poetry Meta-enjambment verse
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