Rhythm and feet.
Rhythm is one of the basic elements of music, which means that the length and strength of sound appear regularly and repeatedly. At first, poetry in any language was mostly used for singing, or poetry originated from music, so poetry has the characteristics and aesthetic feeling of music and has been passed down to this day.
Similar to China's ancient poems, English poems are divided into stressed syllables and lightly read syllables. Light and heavy syllables are combined into a step according to a certain pattern: the step appears regularly and repeatedly, forming a cadence and pleasant rhythm of English poetry. According to the requirements of speech speed and rhythm, sometimes some originally stressed syllables should be read lightly, and some originally stressed syllables should also be stressed. There are two basic types of steps:
1 iambic. If a foot has two syllables, the first is a light syllable, and the second is a heavy syllable (lightly pronounced as "inhibition" and stressed as "yang"), it constitutes an iambic foot, which is the most commonly used one, for example, it floats on high canyons and hills.
(2) pulley language. If a step has two syllables, the former is more important than the latter, which constitutes an cadence step and is rarely used. For example, please don't tell me in sad poems.
A poem/verse
English poetry is sometimes divided into stanzas, and usually the first letter of each line should be capitalized, whether it is a single sentence or not. Sometimes one line is an ending stop sentence, sometimes two or more lines are one sentence or even one line belongs to two sentences, that is, eniambed sentence. For beginners, cross-line sentences in English poetry may be a difficulty that hinders understanding.
The unit of calculation for the length of English poems is meter, including one meter, two meters, three meters, four meters, four meters, six meters, seven meters and eight meters. Among them, four-step and five-step lines are the most common.
The combination of the types and numbers of steps in a line of poetry constitutes the meter of poetry, and meter is the basic unit of meter. The most common instruments are as follows:
I want to be lonely, just like a pentameter cloud): Should I? Compare you to summer? Many English poems require the same number of syllables per line: similarly, Chinese poems require the same number of words, but actually the same number of syllables.
In order to achieve the same number of syllables per line, English poets sometimes need to adjust the spelling of some words to reduce some redundant syllables, for example, because they are written as cause, they lose one syllable. There is also: (in). O'er (over), oft (oft), reap' d(reaved), who' er(who) and so on.
Rhyme (rhyme)
Like China's poems, English poems generally rhyme.
The rhyme placed on the last syllable of a line is called rhyme, also called rhyme foot, which is the most important rhyme position in English poetry. The rhyme at the end of every poem has a rhyme form, which is usually expressed by letters. For example, Robert Frost's Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Night has four rhymes: aaba (the third quarter) and dddd (the fourth quarter).
If the syllable in the middle of a line rhymes with the last syllable, it is called internalrhyme. For example, spring, sweet spring, is a pleasant king in a year.
Some words in a line poem start with the same letter or rhyme, which is called alliteration, such as Woods.
Very cute. It's dark and deep. Rhyme can be divided into male rhyme and female rhyme. The rhyme placed on the last stressed syllable of a line is called male rhyme or single rhyme, which is characterized by grandeur and strength. The rhyme placed on the light syllable at the end of a line is called female rhyme or double rhyme, which is characterized by lightness and softness.
There are also some English poems that don't rhyme, which are called blank poems, as opposed to rhyming poems. Although blank verse does not rhyme, it has a fixed meter, which is different from free verse, because free verse neither rhymes nor has a fixed meter.