The first one is Xu Zhimo's masterpiece Farewell to Cambridge. Farewell to Cambridge, section 1. As follows-
I walked gently.
When I came softly
I waved my hand gently.
Farewell to the western clouds
-These four poems all rhyme with "mourning". Readers, please have a look. If the word "cloud" is replaced by "cloud", or "colorful clouds", or "sunset glow" or "rosy clouds", is it ok? Absolutely! Not only can it be, but it's not bad at all. Especially "Xia Yun" is more harmonious with the following-the golden willow by the lake, the bride in the sunset and so on. But this change, with its language charm and aesthetic feeling, can also highlight the poet's free and easy melancholy?
The second is Mr. Ai Qing's masterpiece "Reef"-
Wave after wave.
Come to me endlessly
Every wave is at its feet.
Break into pieces and spread out
Its face and body.
Like a knife.
But it's still standing there
Looking at the sea with a smile.
-If the word "scattered" in the first section is changed to "scattered" or "splashed", and the word "foreign" in the last sentence is changed to "sea", is that all right? There is no doubt that it is possible, but after such changes, do you still have the long charm of the original after reading it again?
Of course, here, we need to make sure that these two poems are true feelings and highly connected with "God", so even if they are changed, they are still good poems, but they are obviously not as good as the original ones. Why are you inferior? That's because it no longer rhymes. In this way, the importance of rhyme is obvious. There are many excellent works in the history of new poetry. Readers, especially those who write poems, who are interested can have a look, change the rhyming words into non-rhyming words, and then feel the effect.
Now that we understand the importance of rhyme, we should focus on the rhyme of poetry.
Third, the requirements of rhyme for poets.
First of all, what do rhymes require of poets? The first requirement is that the poet should have a certain talent, that is, sensitivity to language; Secondly, it requires the poet to be diligent and bear loneliness. Why are there these two requirements? Because, to master rhyme, you must go through two levels. First of all, you must master a lot of words. Second, after mastering a large number of words, you must be able to use them flexibly. The former only needs to study hard and endure loneliness; The latter, in addition to being diligent and able to withstand loneliness, also requires poets to have certain talents-without certain talents, even if they master a large number of words, it is difficult to use them flexibly. However, what needs to be emphasized here is that a poet's lack of talent is not terrible, because as the saying goes-diligence can make up for it. If the poet can fly first and then redouble his efforts, he will not be able to rhyme skillfully and write good poems.
After reading these, some friends must ask-what is talent? Or is there any language sensitivity? Then I want to say-if you write a poem, if you put it on rhyme without any guidance, and write a rhyming poem, it shows that you have a very high talent, that is, you are very talented; If you don't understand at first, but someone does at first, you will understand the importance of rhyme to writing poetry, which shows that you also have considerable talent; And if someone tells you the importance of rhyme again and again, but you still ignore it, or unknown so, it shows that you lack talent and sensitivity for poetic language. However, this does not rule out your misunderstanding of poetry. After all, the concept that new poetry is a free body has been deeply rooted in people's hearts-although there is no clear boundary for the scale of freedom.
Fourth, rhyme rules.
Knowing the requirements of rhyme for poets, we can also begin to analyze some laws of poetry rhyme.
Here, let's take a look at the rhyming rules of old-style poems. What needs to be explained here is that there are metrical poems, words, songs, modern poems, ancient poems and so on. Here, I call all the poems before the new poems old-fashioned poems. So, what are the rules of rhyme in old-style poems? There are strict rules for the rhyme of old-style poems. For example, four lines of quatrains generally rhyme with one, two, four and two; For example, stereotyped writing rhyme is generally 2468, or at least rhymes with 268; For example, the rhyme of Dream in Song Dynasty is 12456 or1246; The rhyming features of poems in Yuan Qu are relatively dense, and basically every sentence rhymes-Ma Zhiyuan's "Tianjingsha Qiu Si"-the dead vine cries faintly, the bridge flows, the ancient road is thin and the west wind, the sun sets, and the horizon is heartbroken. It's a representative. It's a good explanation.
Then, how should new poems rhyme, and what are the rules? New poetry is called free poetry, so in rhyme, it is natural to embody the characteristics of freedom-this is also the characteristic of social development in the times, and it is becoming more and more relaxed and free. In other words, there are no strict rules for the rhyme of new poems, but-rhyme as much as possible. Specifically, the rhyme of the last word is usually the rhyme of the whole poem, or the last rhyme-because rhyme can change rhyme, which I will explain later. So the rhyme of the new poem is very simple, simpler and clearer than the old poem. But simplicity does not mean that it is easy to master, and there is no cleverness. Then, let's analyze the rhyme of the new poem.
Hehe, of course, it's also a good idea to revise it when writing.