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wind-shattered verse

Genre
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

Poems metaphorically or literally shaped by imagery of wind’s force.

Detailed Definition
Wind-shattered verse employs fragmented syntax, erratic line breaks, and dissonant sounds to mimic the disruptive force of gales or storms; this technique conveys psychological trauma, social upheaval, or ecological crisis by embodying chaos through formal disintegration.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Branches snapped like brittle bones / in the gale’s cruel hands” (imagery of destruction); “My thoughts, scattered by the storm, / lie in fragments on the ground” (psychological shattering); “The house groaned—windows shattered— / silence after” (verse mimicking collapse); “Words torn from my mouth / by the hurricane’s roar” (voice as victim of wind)
Additional Notes
wind-shattered verse: Poetry, typically modernist or contemporary, characterized by a fragmented, broken, or abrupt metrical and syntactic structure, deliberately mimicking the disruptive force of a sudden gust of wind or emotional shock.
Also Known As
Shattered wind verse Broken wind lyric Wind-rent poem Anemoclastic verse
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