Abstract
Recorded readings of three poems were analyzed: “Buffalo Bill’s” by E. E. Cummings, “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” by Randall Jarrell, and “Dust of Snow” by Robert Frost. Readings were by the respective authors, 10 university professors of English, and 10 adults. A rhetorical or expressive use of both more frequent and longer silent pauses by the authors was predicted relative to professors and adults. This was confirmed, except for the shorter pauses of Frost. Both speech rate and articulation rate of authors were dramatically slower than those of the control groups. Only negligible differences were found between the control groups.
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