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tearful lyric

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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

A lyric poem expressing sorrow, grief, or emotional vulnerability

Detailed Definition
A tearful lyric is a poem of lament or sorrow that foregrounds emotional vulnerability through plaintive diction, fragmented syntax, and intimate address; it draws from elegiac and confessional traditions to articulate grief, longing, or heartbreak with unguarded sincerity.
Example
Example in poetry:
John Keats’s “Ode on Melancholy” blends beauty and sorrow in tearful lyric; Alfred Tennyson’s “Tears, Idle Tears” mourns lost days with lyrical weeping; Sylvia Plath’s “Tulips” expresses tearful lyric through hospital imagery and emotional numbness; Li-Young Lee’s “The Gift” recalls paternal tenderness with tearful lyric restraint.
Additional Notes
Tearful lyric expresses sorrow, lament, or vulnerability; often uses first-person voice and intimate diction—contrasts with festive ode or royal lyric.
Also Known As
Lamenting lyric sorrowful verse mournful song weeping stanzas Crying poem Sorrowful poem
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