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Spout

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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

Informal for geysers or Aquarian innovative bursts. In poetry, spouts erupts as watery innovations or stellar fountains.

Detailed Definition
Spout, Uranus flash, innovates. In verse, it spouts in explosive imagery like Whitman's. Literary jets symbolize release. The term's upward surge poeticizes invention, where spouts fountain ideas, inspiring themes of breakthrough, flow, and the eruptive poetry of sudden insights.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Jonah's whale echoes by Donne, spout floods prophetic deluge; Modern poet Derek Walcott in "The Sea is History" spouts oceanic archives; Herman Melville's poetic prose spouts Moby Dick's vengeful jets; In biblical verse, spouts rain manna from celestial whales, educating on divine floods.|William Shakespeare's "The Tempest" spouts Ariel's watery prison; T.S. Eliot's "The Dry Salvages" spouts sea gods' gongs.|In Rainer Maria Rilke's "The Leviathan," spout arcs the deep's song; Pablo Neruda's "Ode to the Water," spouts earth's thirsty veins.|In Emily Dickinson's "A Bird came down," spout dives the sea.
Additional Notes
Spout Aquarian inventions or lunar geysers; informal bursts. Poets fountain stellar innovations in watery eruptions—context: Uranus; tip: for breakthroughs; enhances dynamic outpourings in progressive verse.
Also Known As
Water Spout (meteoric)
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