Friday, May 18, 2012

repetition

Definition: the act of repeating: repeated action, performance, production, or presentation.

Example: WHEN I heard the learn’d astronomer;
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;
When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them;
When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; 5
Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars

Significance: repetition is important because it repeats the main theme of the poem. it repeats a word many times.

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