Poetry line
A line of poetry is not necessarily a complete sentence.
The first letter of each line in English poetry is capitalized, but a line is not necessarily a complete sentence, nor does it necessarily express a complete meaning.
Sometimes, a line of poetry is just a sentence, and sometimes two or more lines make up a sentence, and the meaning is complete. The former is called the end stop line and the latter is called the running line. This is one of the biggest differences between English poetry and China poetry. China's poems all express a complete meaning in one line.
(2) The length of a line is calculated by steps:
The length of English lines generally ranges from one step to five steps. There are also six, seven and eight steps, but not many. Most of them are poems with four steps and five steps.
(Various technical terms: one-step poem: one-step poem: two-step poem: three-step poem: three-step poem: four-step poem: five-step poem: six-step poem: seven-step poem: eight-step poem. )
When analyzing the metrical pattern of a poem, we should not only study the basic types of steps in the poem, but also study the number of steps in each line.
Extended data:
Poetry is a unique style in Chinese with a special format and rhythm. Poetry can be divided into classical poetry and modern poetry according to rhythm. Classical poetry and modern poetry are concepts formed in the Tang Dynasty, which are divided from the perspective of poetic rhythm.
According to the content, it can be divided into narrative poems, lyric poems, farewell poems, frontier poems, pastoral poems, nostalgic poems (epics), mourning poems, object-chanting poems, military poems and so on. Classical poems include The Book of Songs, Songs of the South, Yuefu, Han Fu, Folk Songs of the Southern and Northern Dynasties and so on. Modern poetry is generally quatrains, metrical poems and parallel poems (long laws).