ABSTRACT
Charmed by Orpheus’s singing, a tree arises in the first line of the first sonnet of The Sonnets to Orpheus. By my count there are three medial pauses and three pauses at the end of lines one, two, and four. The first stanza performs, hyperbolically, chiefly by anaphora (repetition) and aposiopesis (sudden interruption), the power of Orpheus’s song as a version of the act of creation in Genesis.
