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Without design

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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

Verse created without predetermined structure, rhyme, or meter, embracing spontaneity, chance, or organic compositional flow.

Detailed Definition
Without design: Describing poetry that appears to lack predetermined structure, plan, or intentional organization, embracing spontaneity, chance, or organic development over conscious formal architecture.
Example
Example in poetry:
Poetry composed without deliberate structure; verse lacking intentional organization; works that avoid conscious planning; undesigned or spontaneous poetry
Additional Notes
Poetry composed without apparent deliberate structure or planning; may reflect spontaneous composition; differs from incompetence by achieving artistic effect; associated with surrealist automatic writing and some experimental traditions
Also Known As
Aimless Purposeless Non-teleological Dysteleological
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