The Beauty of Rhythm in Ancient Poetry

The beauty of rhyme in ancient poetry is rhythm.

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Rhythm (pinyin: yùnlǜ) refers to the flat pattern and rhyme rules in poetry. Extend to the rhythm of sound. Biography of Yuan Zhen in the Old Tang Dynasty: "Deep thinking, close words, new rhythm, no difference between right and wrong, and boundless style."

Ye Shengtao's "Tour Three Lakes": "Listening to the lake waves lapping on the shore is quite monotonous, but it has rhythm." Refers to the uniform rhythm of the movement of some objects. Ye Shengtao's Ni Huanzhi XV: "Her shoulders are swinging rhythmically."

Poetry creation should pay attention to artistry and several aspects, one of which is "rhythm", and pay attention to the collocation of words and the harmony of tones. In these aspects, the ancients had many incisive expositions, such as poems and songs.

Knowledge expansion:

When it comes to the rhythm of poetry, it generally includes three aspects: First, the level tone was first put forward by Shen Yue in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and it was widely used in metrical poems after the prosperous Tang Dynasty, mainly focusing on the coordination between the levels tone. The second is duality, in verse, especially in metrical poems.

Duality is strict. Generally, there are sentence pairs in poetry, and there are also many sentence pairs and paragraph pairs in fu and eight-part essay. The third is rhyme, which means that rhyming words regularly appear in appropriate places (usually pause places). These three aspects all come from the characteristics of Chinese pronunciation, that is, monosyllabic morphemes are dominant and have tones.

When writing poems, especially metrical poems, the use of parallelism, duality and rhyme is good and natural, which can enhance the sense of music and present the beauty of rhythm; Poor use and excessive use will give people a feeling of thankless, and even hurt the meaning with words. Parallel prose from the Six Dynasties to the early Tang Dynasty is an obvious example. This is the basic skill that every poetry lover must master.

In prose language, there are few rhymes, but it is not without them. Rhyme is commonly used (including fu, poetry, words, songs, etc. ), and rhyme is rhyming words.