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  2. Substitution (poetry) - Wikipedia

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    Donne uses an inversion (DUM da instead of da DUM) in the first foot of the first line to stress the key verb, "batter", and then sets up a clear iambic pattern with the rest of the line Shakespeare's Hamlet includes a well-known example: To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer

  3. Inversion (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    is arrivato arrived Giovanni. Giovanni è arrivato Giovanni. is arrived Giovanni 'Giovanni arrived' In English, on the other hand, subject-verb inversion generally takes the form of a Locative inversion. A familiar example of subject-verb inversion from English is the presentational there construction. There's a shark. English (especially written English) also has an inversion construction ...

  4. Poetry analysis - Wikipedia

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    A writer learning the craft of poetry might use the tools of poetry analysis to expand and strengthen their own mastery. [4] A reader might use the tools and techniques of poetry analysis in order to discern all that the work has to offer, and thereby gain a fuller, more rewarding appreciation of the poem. [5]

  5. Foregrounding - Wikipedia

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    For example, the last line of a poem with a consistent metre may be foregrounded by changing the number of syllables it contains. This would be an example of a deviation from a secondary norm. In the following poem by E. E. Cummings, [16] there are two types of deviation: light's lives lurch a once world quickly from rises army the gradual of ...

  6. Negative inversion - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, negative inversion is one of many types of subject–auxiliary inversion in English.A negation (e.g. not, no, never, nothing, etc.) or a word that implies negation (only, hardly, scarcely) or a phrase containing one of these words precedes the finite auxiliary verb necessitating that the subject and finite verb undergo inversion. [1]

  7. Subject–auxiliary inversion - Wikipedia

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    Inversion does not occur, however, when the interrogative word is the subject or is contained in the subject. In this case the subject remains before the verb (it can be said that wh-fronting takes precedence over subject–auxiliary inversion): a. Somebody has read the paper. – Statement b. Who has read the paper?

  8. The Heresy of Paraphrase - Wikipedia

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    [1]: 213 Since the form of a poem is an important part of its meaning, that the process of paraphrasing it affects its meaning too much for the paraphrase to be an accurate summary of its meaning. The meaning of the poem is embodied in its sensual aspects of the arrangement, sound, and rhythm of the words, which are not translateable (an ...

  9. Poetics - Wikipedia

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    Leonardo Bruni's translation of Aristotle's Poetics. Poetics is the study or theory of poetry, specifically the study or theory of device, structure, form, type, and effect with regards to poetry, [1] though usage of the term can also refer to literature broadly.