The iambic is the most commonly used in English poetry, and 90% of English poetry is written in iambic, among which iambic pentameter is the most common. To understand what iambic pentameter is, we must first know what iambic pentameter and iambic pentameter are.
The foot is the smallest rhythmic unit formed by different combinations of light syllables and heavy syllables that appear according to certain rules in a poem. English writing is a stressed syllable language, so there are light syllables and stressed syllables, which are the decisive factors to form the unique cadence of English. This is one of the phonetic differences between English and French.
If there are two syllables in a step, the former is light and the latter is heavy, then this step is called iamb, and its technical term is (iamb,? Iambic. )。 Light reading is "inhibition" and stress is "promotion", so it is called iambic.
There are a large number of words in English, and their pronunciations are light and heavy, such as affection, excitement, above, around, appearance, besides, attack, supply, believe and return. So it is convenient to write English poems in iambic. In other words, iambic rhymes conform to the rules of English pronunciation.
The content of the sonnet:
Of course, the basic requirement of foreign metrical poetry genre is "sonnet" first. Its meter has different requirements according to different languages and grammars in different countries. Sonnets translated from French are basically translated according to the syllables of each line Each line has 8, 10 and 12 syllables.
Most of the translations from English and German are translated according to the five-step iambic pentameter rule of the original text. Generally translated into Chinese, most of them are translated into five Chinese phrases per line, rather than the five-step iambic pentameter of the original text. As for rhyme, there are many variations.