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stichic diacope

Device
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

Line-by-line poetry employing repeated words with intervening material

Detailed Definition
Stichic diacope employs repeated words or phrases across continuous, non-stanzaic verse, creating echo effects through separation by intervening material. This classical rhetorical device generates emphasis and structural cohesion in poems without formal stanzaic breaks.
Example
Example in poetry:
Stichic diacope repeats words with intervening text: Shakespeare’s “Words, words, words” in Hamlet; Emily Dickinson’s “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain— / And then a Plank in Reason, broke” (repetition of mental collapse); contemporary examples include Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” (“I, I, I, I”); Walt Whitman’s anaphoric catalogs; Danez Smith’s “not an elegy” with repeated “no.”
Additional Notes
Repeated words or phrases appearing in successive lines without stanzaic division, using diacope in continuous verse.
Also Known As
Linear diacope Stichic repetition Continuous-line echo Unbroken-verse repeat Diacope stanza
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