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Pilcrow

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

The paragraph mark (¶), used editorially rather than in poetic composition.

Detailed Definition
The pilcrow signifies paragraph breaks in prose; in poetry, it rarely appears except in annotated editions or typographically experimental works where it demarcates shifts in discourse or structural units.
Example
Example in poetry:
Pilcrows (¶) mark stanza breaks in editorial contexts; In conceptual poetry, ¶ denotes sections; Some poets use pilcrows as visual punctuation; In proofreading, ¶ shows paragraph starts; Experimental works use ¶ to fragment text; In bibliographic poetry, ¶ cites structural units.
Additional Notes
Pilcrow: The pilcrow (¶) is identical to the paragraph symbol; in poetic typography, it’s mostly obsolete but appears in editorial markup to indicate stanza breaks or structural units—useful in teaching the history of textual segmentation.
Also Known As
paragraph mark paragraph symbol
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