Terminology note: By analogy with Barthes's lexias, I'd like to call those segments of auditory experience into which our hearing of a poem divides "audias" (singular: audia). I supply the following transcript, generated using the "label track" function of Audacity, as a preliminary way of thinking about how sentence, line, and audia interact and inform the analysis of poetry soundfiles. [Back to Lipstick of Noise.]

Edwin Denby - People on Sunday

[Note: The abbreviation "LB" in brackets indicates a linebreak in the printed poem; "StB" indicates a stanza break.]

01.579633 people on Sunday

06.167537 in the street young men play ball
08.792516 else
10.668330 in fresh shirts [LB]
11.998241 expect a girl
14.396728 bums sit quietly soused in housedoors [LB]
18.560687 girls in dresses walk looking ahead
22.045172 a car starts [LB] as the light clicks
25.912949 and Greeks laugh in cafes upstairs [StB]

30.071101 Sundays the long asphalt looks dead like a beach [LB]
34.624160 the heat lies on New York the size of the city [LB]
38.689392 the season keeps moving through & out of reach [LB]
42.580400 & people left in the kitchen are a little flighty [StB]

46.901160 look at all the noises we make for one another [LB]
49.868780 like shake cake bake take
52.493758 or
53.202270 ton gun run fun [LB]
56.704177 like
57.627565 the weather
58.719370 the system
60.084127 the picture of his brother [LB]
62.639415 and
63.469884 shake hands and leave
65.636072 and look at the sun go down [StB]

68.679188 one Sunday a day old baby looked right at my eyes [LB]
72.454046 and turned its head away
74.161444 without the least surprise