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The stress pattern Jiang wants the class to map explicitly as a way of understanding Dante's formal power. The stress pattern Jiang wants the class to hear and Aurelia begins to describe in alternating beats.
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meter
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Jiang shifts the class from rhyme to meter and asks for the stress pattern to be formally explained.
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Aurelia tentatively describes the meter as an alternating pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
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Jiang says Dante's meter and rhyme are designed to express the mathematical beauty and symmetrical structure of the universe.
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"...Yeah. Okay, can, can you explain the, the, the, the, the meter scheme to, for, so, so we understand? Could, could you actually write..."
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"So, like, we can look at which syllables are stressed. Okay."
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"So, like,. So, it's, like,. So, it's, like, every other syllable is stressed and unstressed.. So, I'm pretty sure, I need to check my..."
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"...you guys? Where the poetry, the language, the construction of the meter, it's meant to mirror the symmetrical structure of the universe. Okay? Is..."
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"...other shelter. And now, with fear, I set it down in meter. I was where all the shades were fully covered, but visible as..."
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"...Olympic game where, okay, everyone's going and competing in the 100 -meter sprint. And we know you shouldn't do drugs because drugs will destroy..."
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"...Metrical Revolution possible. Okay? So the fact that we use the meter."
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"...-range cannon warfare where from a distance, maybe a few hundred meters, you will blast your enemy with cannons. There are lots and lots..."
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