query on poetic figure

Charles C Doyle cdoyle at UGA.EDU
Fri Jul 16 19:24:32 UTC 2010


The phenomenon is a little like TMESIS--except that instead of the interposing of a morpheme between syllables there's the insertion of a pseudo-juncture that marks the line's end.

--Charlie

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