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Internet verse

Genre
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 composed for or influenced by digital culture, platforms, and online communication

Detailed Definition
Internet verse incorporates digital culture, online vernacular, memes, or networked identity into poetic form, often embracing fragmentation, intertextuality, and rapid tonal shifts; it reflects the aesthetics of the attention economy, using hyperlinks (implied or real), emojis, or code-like syntax to explore how technology reshapes language, memory, and selfhood.
Example
Example in poetry:
Internet verse uses digital culture as subject or form, as in Kenneth Goldsmith’s “The Weather” (data poetry); In “Status Update,” Fatimah Asghar tweets poetic lines: “i am not missing you. i am missing the version of me that existed when we were us”; Another: poems formatted as chat logs, error messages, or search results
Additional Notes
Internet verse uses digital culture, memes, or online vernacular as material, often embracing fragmentation, intertextuality, and rapid tonal shifts; reflects contemporary attention economies and networked identity.
Also Known As
Digital lyric Net-poetry Cyberstanza E-poetry Web poetry
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