There is no doubt that poetry has a sense of rhythm, and poetry also pays attention to rhythm. Whether writing or reading aloud, if a person doesn't write well, he may mention that "your poem has no sense of rhythm" Haruki Murakami once mentioned the rhythm of writing, which is different from musicality. Musicality includes the sense of beat and rhythm in rhythm, of course, musicality contains more things.
From the music major, it includes four elements: rhythm, melody, timbre and harmony. This sense of rhythm is an organic combination of the pattern of primary and secondary strengths in a story cycle as an element similar to notes, and this pattern of primary and secondary strengths in the whole work according to the marching relationship of primary and secondary strengths.
People who write novels with a good sense of rhythm, such as Roland and Shen Congwen, have a sense of music in their works. Shen Congwen's Border Town, the whole novel is just like what Cui Cui heard when he folded Saxifraga in his dream? Xiangxi love songs sung by parents are touching and poetic, primitive and natural. Romain rolland's "john christopher" is a magnificent 13 movement symphony poem, full of human emotions and changes in human nature. This messy rhythm makes the viewer's heart and feelings tremble together, and they are sad and happy together.
Whether it is poetry, music or literary works, its good sense of rhythm always touches people's hearts, and it can touch people's hearts at different emotional levels. There is not much mystery between them.
Taking music as an example, we can analyze why music with different rhythms can strike a chord, and it will strike a chord similar to many people.
The most primitive music style is only the beat, and the rhythm is the development of the beat, such as harmony, timbre and melody, which are all later advanced products. The original music is a combination of different beats. This kind of pure beat music can still be found in the original tribal music in Africa, and some even contain very rich beat patterns. Beat can extend music to the distance in a simple and periodic way, producing a circular and stable development effect, which is a bit like a cannon in music style.
The simplest rhythm pattern is that primitive people imitate the natural rhythm of human life in practice, such as breathing, running, marching, wheezing during sex, whistling wind, birds singing, water flow, waves beating against rocks, alternating between the sun and the moon and so on. At that time, human beings were still in an uncivilized and ignorant state, and their perception of everything was simple, direct and primitive. Today, the complex thinking and emotional patterns of human beings are all grown from this primitive pattern, so when people hear a certain rhythm, emotions similar to these rhythms will be awakened, and the primitive rhythm pattern is to trigger people's emotions on the instinctive level.
Poetry has a sense of rhythm but no sense of beat. When there is only a sense of beat, the myths and emotions in poetry will be cut mechanically, and the formal beauty of poetry will disappear.
Take September adapted by Haizi as an example;
Witness/God/Death/Grass/Plain/Wild Flowers/A piece
Far/far/wind farther than far/far-
Read it in two beats, the poem is already terrible. Zhou Yunpeng sings very well.
Music can have rhythm and beat at the same time. Beat is essentially a fixed beat pattern and the simplest rhythm, but it is not what we usually call the real rhythm. /kloc-Wei Erlun, a symbolist poet in the 20th century, said, "Take back what music has taken from poetry". It should be said that music never takes anything away from poetry, and some things are not in poetry at all.