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Temperament

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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

Humoral balance from planetary mixtures, like sanguine fire. Poetry temperaments blends as elemental personalities or stellar constitutions.

Detailed Definition
Temperament, phlegmatic/melancholic, charts blends. In verse, it temps in character types like Jonson's. Literary humors symbolize mood. The term's mixed quality poeticizes disposition, where temperaments humoralize, allowing explorations of nature, balance, and the humoral poetry of astrological psyches.
Example
Example in poetry:
In humoral astrology by Burton, temperament blends elements' choleric fire; Modern poet Heather Christle in "The Difficult Farm" tempers moods in fields; William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" tempers melancholic prince's bile; In medieval verse, temperaments fourfold the soul's seasons, educating on balanced humors.|John Milton's "Il Penseroso" tempers contemplative melancholy; T.S. Eliot's "Portrait of a Lady" tempers tea-time phlegm.|In Rainer Maria Rilke's "The Temper," it lays autumn's fruit; Percy Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" tempers revolutionary storm.|In Sylvia Plath's "Lady Lazarus," temperament rises from ash.
Additional Notes
Temperament phlegmatic water, choleric fire; from sect/lords balance. Poets blend elemental humors in personality mixes—related to nativity; tip: for health; students personality fusions, for humoral character poetry.
Also Known As
Humoral Temperament Personality humour
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