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Run-on pattern

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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

A recurring structural pattern in poetry where lines flow across line breaks without pause, creating momentum through enjambment.

Detailed Definition
A recurring, systematic, or consistent pattern of enjambment throughout a poem, where run-on lines create larger structural design. The run-on pattern results from repeated syntactic overflow across line breaks, shaping verse paragraphs and overall architecture. This technique is fundamental to blank verse where flowing grammar creates sustained periods. Understanding run-on patterns helps analyze how poets use enjambment systematically rather than occasionally to shape form.
Example
Example in poetry:
Run-on pattern appears in enjambed lines of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 129: “Enjoyed no sooner but despised straight”; In Whitman’s “Song of Myself”: “I celebrate myself, and sing myself, / And what I assume you shall assume”; In T.S. Eliot’s “Prufrock”: “I have measured out my life with coffee spoons”; In Ocean Vuong: “My father once broke a horse / to teach me how to ride”; In Claudia Rankine: “You are in the dark, in the car, / who asked you to speak?”
Additional Notes
Repeated enjambment creates larger structural pattern. Common in blank verse and free verse. Understanding this helps analyze extended syntactic structures.
Also Known As
Enjambment pattern Run-on design Overflow structure Continuous flow Enjambment Mosaic
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