(Note: In fact, both rhythm and meter have the meaning of rhythm. In order to express them conveniently when they appear at the same time, rhythm is translated as "rhyme", and metre means "rhythm". )
Like grammar and rhetoric, prosody (the study of poetry) is an area where scholars are disillusioned with traditional theories, and they cannot replace it with another consistent substitute. Harvey Gross is a spokesman for the current confusion on this issue. At that time, in his book,
7. 1 micron and meter
Some views have been widely accepted. For example, poetry is the interaction between two structural planes: the ideal rule is that the quasi-mathematical model is called "meter", while the real rhythm based on language is sometimes called "prose rhythm". Regarding the difference between the two, as the poet himself perceived through imagination, W B Ye Zhi (in his book,
The third factor to be distinguished is the performance of specific recitation. This obviously has nothing to do with poetry, because poetry is printed on paper, abstracting any inflections, tone sandhi, etc. A performance may be interpreted as it, just as the drama Hamlet exists independently of the actual performance and the actual dramatic works. However, in the following ways, performance is related to "prose rhyme". Prose rhyming is not a special way to say a poem, but a potential expressive force according to English rhyming norms. For the poem "If you have stars, get ready to light them", if it is two different marc anthony, one may translate it like this, and the other may put the first stress in a different position, for example, "? If you have hair, you are going to cut it off. According to normal English pronunciation norms, both spellings are allowed. Therefore, performance can be regarded as a special choice from all possible pronunciations, in order to keep consistent with the usual rhyme in spoken English.
The difference between prosody and rhyme (the so-called "prosody" restriction is unnecessary, perhaps misleading) shows a clear strategy for examining English poetry patterns. According to the principle of "divide and rule", we can consider [a] the rhyme of English pronunciation, [b] the traditional meter of English poetry, [c] the relationship between a and [b] in turn. We also need to examine the relationship between poetry format and other aspects of language structure. Obviously, a chapter to study such a vast field can only be dealt with within a simplified framework: rhyme is a very complex subject that can be filled with many books.