poetic structure

collocation in English

meaningsofpoeticandstructure

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poetic
adjective
uk
/pəʊˈet.ɪk/
us
/poʊˈet̬.ɪk/
like or relating to poetry ...
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structure
noun
uk
/ˈstrʌk.tʃər/
us
/ˈstrʌk.tʃɚ/
the way in which the parts of a system or object are arranged or organized, or a system arranged in ...
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(Definition ofpoeticandstructurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpoetic structure

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There is no relationship with thepoeticstructureat the point in question.
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So conceived,poeticstructureacts as a pivot, permitting movement from propositional to interactional stance.
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The musical structure in this piece does not perfectly coincide withpoeticstructure.
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Poetic gesture andpoeticstructureare also characteristic of the production.
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These evaluations focus on the librettists' adaptation of literary sources,poeticstructure, characterization, and tonal and motivic devices, especially in relation to formal conventions.
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Similarities between the second and fourth segments, particularly in their closing gestures, give shape to the melody and reflect thepoeticstructure.
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These structures are at the origin of new melodies in which repetition of small melodic units reinforces thepoeticstructure.
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As in the case of some of the other examples, the residuum is at the end of the music, and the repeated lines in thepoeticstructuremerely cued.
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In charting the movement from epistemic stance to interactional stance by way ofpoeticstructure, the article argues for and clarifies the place of poetics in the study of stance.
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Poeticstructurecan put into articulation lexical and grammatical resources in ways that map propositional into interactional stance, hence mediating between two broad types of stance.
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What needs additional clarification is the issue of just how stance differential operates, and especially howpoeticstructurecan put into articulation lexicogrammatical resources for expressing propositional stance.
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Yet his idiosyncraticpoeticstructurenever disrupts its symbolic density.
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They enable a mode of expression that is difficult to incorporate into thepoeticstructure.
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Thepoeticstructurein this book is simpler, with one metre almost all the way.
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Metrical rules are then used to combine these fragments into a well-formedpoeticstructure.
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Second, left underexamined is the issue of the relative scale of poetic structures.
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