Techniphemes and denotatiphemes, it should be noted, are not used only in poetry; the former are simply used significantly more in poetry than in any other form of literary composition. They consist of equaphemes, repenemes, enhanciphemes and flow-breaks. Definition of these will have to wait until tomorrow.

Denotatiphemes are words that do nothing or little but denote subject matter--which can be narrative, ideational, scenic, or whatever has always been consider subject matter in literature.

Poetic form is simply the shape of a poem, or what a text can be abstractly described as once it has been judged a poem, which (I will eventually argue) depends entirely upon its techniphemes.

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