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Low line

Notation
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

An underscore (_) used in digital contexts or as a placeholder in poetic drafts.

Detailed Definition
The low line serves as a blank or emphasis marker in digital poetry or manuscript revisions; it may indicate omitted words, invite reader participation, or function as a visual element in concrete poetry exploring absence or erasure.
Example
Example in poetry:
Low lines (spacing underscores) appear in fill-in-the-blank poetry: “I miss you ”; In educational poems, blanks prompt reader participation; Some poets use low lines for redaction: “classified ”; In visual poetry, low lines create horizontal emphasis; Experimental works use to denote silence; In interactive poetry, invites completion.
Additional Notes
Low line: The low line (spacing underscore) is rarely used in poetry but may appear in linguistic glosses or as a placeholder; distinguish it from the underscore character used in digital markup—its typographic neutrality makes it suitable for anonymization or redaction in experimental texts.
Also Known As
spacing underscore Underscore
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