单词 | over-reave |
释义 | † over-reavev. Prosody. Obsolete. rare. transitive. To scan (verse) using a metrical scheme based on a complete stanza rather than on individual lines, so that there is no break in the rhythm between one line and the next.A term used by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89) to describe a method for scanning verse used in his poetry. See also sprung rhythm n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhythm > put into rhythm [verb (transitive)] > continue scansion over whole stanza over-reave1880 1880 G. M. Hopkins Let. 22 Dec. in G. M. Hopkins & R. D. Dixon Corr. (1935) 40 In lyric verse I like sprung rhythm also to be over-rove, that is the scanning to run on from line to line to the end of the stanza. 1881 G. M. Hopkins Lett. to R. Bridges (1935) 120 In my lyrics in sprung rhythm I am strict in overreaving the lines when the measure has four feet, so that if one line has a heavy ending the next must have a sprung head. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < v.1880 |
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