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Passing lyric

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

A fleeting, impressionistic lyric that captures a transient emotion, observation, or sensory moment with delicate immediacy and brevity.

Detailed Definition
A passing lyric captures a transient moment, emotion, or observation with brevity and immediacy, emphasizing ephemerality over permanence; Wordsworth’s “She dwelt among the untrodden ways” and Bashō’s frog-pond haiku exemplify this mode’s power to distill fleeting experience into enduring art.
Example
Example in poetry:
Wordsworth’s “She dwelt among the untrodden ways” captures fleeting memory; Dickinson’s “I never saw a Moor” expresses transient faith; Bashō’s haiku: “On a withered branch / A crow has alighted— / Nightfall in autumn” (passing moment); Frost’s “Stopping by Woods” evokes a brief, quiet pause
Additional Notes
A passing lyric captures a transient moment, mood, or observation—emphasizes ephemerality over narrative; aligned with haiku, Imagism, and pastoral traditions of fleeting beauty.
Also Known As
Ephemeral lyric transient song momentary verse fleeting poetic glimpse Fleeting subjective verse Transient personal poem
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