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rung

Verb
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

Past tense of ring, here meaning to hover or circle while making a ringing motion in the air. It is an older poetic use, not the usual meaning of a bell ringing.

Detailed Definition
Hopkins uses this verb in a strikingly compressed way to describe the falcon's movement on the wind. The word suggests both circling and a ringing, resonant motion, fitting the poem's energetic sound pattern. Because this is an unusual poetic use, readers may need help with it.
Example
Example in poetry:
“He rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing,” uses rung as an older past tense of ring; standard modern usage usually prefers “rang,” though rung remains the past participle; “the bell rung through the valley” preserves dialectal or archaic voice; sound verbs can make a line physically resonant
Additional Notes
In the quoted line, "rung" is an archaic or specialized poetic use of the verb, not the ordinary modern sense.; Found in the poem, The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins
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