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scope

Noun
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 breadth or extent of a subject's possibilities, applications, or implications; in poetry, the scope of a work defines its intellectual or emotional ambition, setting the stage for its thematic exploration.

Detailed Definition
Scope here means the speaker’s reach or capacity, not a physical instrument. The word helps express the idea that joy and beauty are beyond what she can attain.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Joy, beauty, lie beyond my scope” means beyond the speaker’s range or capacity; Shakespeare’s “Within the book and volume of my brain” evokes the mental scope of remembrance; “Her scope widened from one street to the watershed” uses the noun for extent or range; In a poem, “scope” may describe what the eye, mind, authority, or ambition can encompass
Additional Notes
In "lie beyond my scope," scope is used in a less everyday sense of range or capacity, which may prompt readers to look it up.; Found in the poem, De Profundis by Christina Rossetti
Also Known As
range extent breadth panorama
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