Mode: Poetry doesn't have to rhyme, but it must have rhythm. Rhythm is called rhythm in English, which comes from Greece and means flowing, that is, moving from one point to another. How can we analyze the rhythm of English poetry with phonological footwork? Take metrical poems as an example.
Firstly, divide each line into several syllables, distinguish which syllables are stressed and which syllables are not stressed, and find out their arrangement form and the number of times this arrangement appears in a line, that is, the number of steps contained in the line.
Principle: Rhyme means that the same or similar stressed syllables appear in two or more corresponding positions. The rhyme of English poetry can be divided into complete rhyme and approximate rhyme (also called residual rhyme). Whole rhyme means that when rhyming, it must be placed on stressed syllables starting with different consonants, in which the vowel is the same, and the consonants or other unstressed syllables after this vowel must also be the same;
There are three kinds of approximate rhymes, that is, the last consonant is the same and the vowels in front are similar but different; The consonants after the same vowel are different, indicating homophonic; Stress vowels are different, and all consonants are the same, that is, homophonic consonants; Another poetic method related to rhyme is alliteration, that is, the same phoneme (mainly consonant) appears repeatedly at the beginning of some related words.