HOW TO PRONOUNCE
poetry
/ˈpoʊətɹi/
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Keep the opening “oh” separate from the next vowel.
In POH-uh-tree, the first syllable carries the main stress. Keep the middle vowel light before t-r, then finish with an ee vowel.
3 syllables · Stress on syllable 1
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“She reads poetry before bed.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does poetry mean?
noun
- Literature composed in verse or language exhibiting conscious attention to patterns and rhythm.
- A poet's literary production.
- (figuratively) An artistic quality that appeals to or evokes the emotions, in any medium; something having such a quality.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈpoʊətɹi/
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“That last line is much too long for the poetry,” she added, almost out loud, forgetting that Humpty Dumpty would hear her.
If Emmeline Grangerford could make poetry like that before she was fourteen, there ain’t no telling what she could a done by-and-by.
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His residence was handsomely furnished, containing among other things a good library, especially rich in poetry, a piano, and some choice engravings.
The literature cited in them is mostly range literature, although precious little in all the songs rises to the status of poetry.
In this was well brought out that characteristic of Hebrew poetry to which it owes so much of its peculiar charm--its parallelism.