| 单词 | counterpointing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈcounterpointing ˈcounterpointing n. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > contrariety or contrast > [noun] > action of contrasting counterpointingc1873 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhythm > [noun] > combining two rhythms counterpointc1873 counterpointingc1873 c1873–4 G. M. Hopkins Note-bks. & Papers (1937) 236 The counterpointing upon an eight- or nine-syllabled four-beat iambic line of a rhythm of six beats in two parts. 1941 L. MacNeice Poetry of Yeats viii. 180 His [sc. Yeats's] very subtle rhythmical ‘counterpointing’, as Gerard Manley Hopkins would have called it, was more congenial to us than Hopkins's own ‘sprung rhythm’. 1959 Listener 29 Jan. 204/2 The verse letters represent a remarkable counterpointing of the formal and the colloquial. < as lemmas |
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