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1	The Same-Spelling Hapax of the Commedia of Dante Soules, Terrill S 10 August 2010 (has links) In the Commedia of Dante, a poem 14,233 lines in length, some 7,500 words occur only once. These are the hapax. Fewer than 2% of these constitute a minute but distinct subset—the hapax for which there are one or more words in the poem whose spelling is identical but whose meaning is different. These are what I call same-spelling hapax. I identify four categories: partof- speech, homograph, locus, and name. Examination of the same-spelling hapax illuminates a poetic strategy continuously in use throughout the poem. This is to use the one-word coinciding of Rhyme’s rhyme number and terzina’s line number. Not only is it highly probable that a samespelling hapax will be a rhyme-word, but it is also probable that it will occupy a rhyme-word’s most significant position—the one place—the single word—where the two intertwined formal entities that shape each canto coincide. Every three lines, their tension-resolving this-word-only union intensifies the reader’s attention and understanding alike. Alighieri Cantica Canto Commedia Concordance Dante Society of America Dartmouth Dante Project Divine Comedy Esigenza di rima Hapax legomenon Hollander hapax Homograph hapax Locus hapax Name hapax Part-of-speech hapax Rhyme Robert Hollander Same-spelling hapax Sbarro Terza rima Terzina Www.tsoules.com/Dante/concordance English Language and Literature