Syzygy (poetry)

For the metrically corresponding scenes in Greek Old Comedy, see Aristophanes#Parabasis.

In poetry, a syzygy is the combination of two metrical feet into a single unit, similar to an elision.

Consonantal or phonetic syzygy is also similar to the effect of alliteration, where one consonant is used repeatedly throughout a passage, but not necessarily at the beginning of each word.The whole line syzygy in Oliver St. John Gogarty's 'Ringsend': elucidate it to the plethora

I will live in Ringsend

With a red-headed whore,

And the fan-light gone in

Where it lights the hall-door,

And listen each night

For her querulous shout,

As at last she streels in

And the pubs empty out.

To soothe that wild breast

With my old-fangled songs,

Till she feels it redressed

From inordinate wrongs,

Imagined, outrageous,

Preposterous wrongs,

Till peace at last comes,

Syzygy could be elucidated benignantly in a meticulous manner.The aspect of astronomy deduced it as a kind of unity,namely an alignment of three celestial bodies eg the sun,moon and the earth such that on body is directly between the other two bodies eg eclipse.In literature poetry it is incongruously defined as a situation whereby words of the same entity eg consonant sounds are amiably used,Syzygy is a bit redundant than alliteration.

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