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Geologic verse

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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 that incorporates geological imagery, processes, or terminology to explore themes of time, erosion, and earth’s history.

Detailed Definition
Geologic verse employs metaphors of rock strata, tectonic shifts, erosion, and deep time to structure poetic thought, often using slow pacing, mineral imagery, and layered syntax to evoke planetary history, environmental change, or the impermanence of human constructs against geological scales.
Example
Example in poetry:
Verse evoking deep time: “Mountains rise in my bones”; Jorie Graham’s “Fast” addresses climate change through geologic lens; Student example: “Fossil of your voice / pressed in my shale heart”; Geologic verse spans millennia
Additional Notes
Poetry exploring geological processes, time, or earth sciences. Rock strata, tectonic themes. Related: geological time, scientific verse. Study: deep time vs. human temporality.
Also Known As
Earth-layer verse Strata poetry Rock-formation verse rock verse
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