Herons play in the boundless green water, and geese fly across the flawless blue sky.
Wu yin lu shui lu xi shui, wu xia bi kong yan heng kong.
The first sentence has the strictest rhyme, while the second sentence is slightly more flexible.
The rhyme should rhyme in the current sentence, and does not require it to rhyme with the next sentence. However, it is more difficult to write than ordinary rhyme poems. At least I have not tried the rhyme. Rhyme poems that are easier to write generally have one rhyme to the end, or change rhymes in the middle, or change rhymes and then back again, or constantly change rhymes every two sentences.
Look at the first sentence first, wu yin lu shui lu xi shui. The pronunciation of the ancients is different from that of people. The pronunciation of green water here is lu shui (dew). It can be found that, just like every other number sequence, the rhymes of the odd-numbered items all rhyme with u, and there is an extra i after the last u. This is actually a change, not the same rhyme as before. The first item of the even-numbered item is also different from the following one. The latter ones are all on the rhyme i, while it is on the front nasal sound of n.
Look at the second sentence, wu xia bi kong yan heng kong, the second sound is barely similar to the fifth sound, and the rhymes are not the same. One is rhymed on a, and the other is rhymed on On "an", there is an extra front nasal sound. Apart from this, the two sounds have no other rhymes in common. The u in the first sound and the i in the third sound did not find the same rhyme. The fourth, sixth, and seventh sounds all rhyme on the back nasal sound of ng.
Looking at the two sentences together, the first sound of the two sentences rhymes with u, the second sound of the previous sentence and the fifth sound of the next sentence both rhyme with n. The third sound of the fourth, sixth, seventh and next sentences are all placed on i. Regardless of the subsequent pronunciation, the two sentences have one thing in common, that is, they both have an i sound.
Taken together, the rhyme fold means that every word in each sentence can be folded up to see the rhyme. Not only in each sentence, but also between two sentences, and even in the entire text, it can be repeated back and forth. You can see different rhymes in different rhymes. The highlight of the whole poem is the rhyme, and the difficulty is also here.
The rhetorical techniques of these two sentences are obvious. They are typical dual sentences. The two sentences before and after are very neatly contrasted, and the heavy words are deliberately used. Generally speaking, poems try not to use the same words, but sometimes deliberately using the same words can have a good rhetorical effect. Both "Boundless" and "Flawless" have the word "无". Boundless expresses the ultimate in scope, and Wuxia expresses the ultimate in beauty. They are all perfect. The green water and the blue sky form a neat contrast. Words with similar or opposite meanings are the most suitable for duality. There was a certain The ancient introductory book on duality also said: "Heaven is against the earth, water is against the sky." This is the most classic usage. Herons and geese are of the same kind. They are both creatures in the range of flying birds. They have the same number of words and are suitable for pairing. Moreover, the pitches are all in the fourth tone, which is even more perfect. The character horizontal here is a conjugation of a noun, used as a verb. It is the same verb as the drama character in the previous sentence, and the two verbs are also suitable for pairing.
The opera character shows the static and quiet beauty of heron in the water, and the horizontal character: geese flying in formation in the air to form a single character also shows the dynamic beauty of geese. The relative movement and stillness is also a kind of duality. These two words are used extremely well. As long as the reader sees these two words, he can see the extremely beautiful picture of the life of the literati that the author saw at that time. The author wrote these two poems in a peaceful mood. The author lived a very leisurely life. life.