by
George Plimpton
(editor)
novitiate
(en)
the period or state of being a novice, especially in a religious order.
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Even though others had been breaking ground, I had a longer backward reach. After all, I had had a quarter of a century novitiate.
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Even though others had been breaking ground, I had a longer backward reach. After all, I had had a quarter of a century novitiate.
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diachronic
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(adjective) of, relating to, or dealing with phenomena (as of language or culture) as they occur or change over a period of time
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Pound made his diachronic and intercultural world
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Pound made his diachronic and intercultural world
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caesura
(en)
(noun) a usually rhetorical break in the flow of sound in the middle of a line of verse / (noun) a break in the flow of sound in a verse caused by the ending of a word within a foot / (noun) break interruption / (noun) a pause marking a rhythmic point of division in a melody
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Another advantage of those voiced intrusions is to provide a kind of beat or a caesura in the ongoing narrative.
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Another advantage of those voiced intrusions is to provide a kind of beat or a caesura in the ongoing narrative.
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prosody
(en)
(noun) the study of versification / (noun) the systematic study of metrical structure / (noun) a particular system, theory, or style of versification / (noun) the rhythmic and intonational aspect of language
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Hers is extremely tragic poetry, not only in subject matter—this is not big news,especially in the Russian realm—but in her language, her prosody
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Hers is extremely tragic poetry, not only in subject matter—this is not big news,especially in the Russian realm—but in her language, her prosody
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