iambic pentameter
Iambic is the most commonly used in English poetry, and 90% of English poetry is written in iambic. Among them, iambic pentameter is the majority. To understand what iambic pentameter is, we must first know what iambic pentameter and iambic pentameter are. Steps: We know that all English words with more than two syllables are divided into stressed syllables and light syllables. In a sentence, according to the requirements of grammar, intonation and semantics, some words should be stressed and some words should be read lightly. For example, he went to town to buy a book. I'm glad to hear that. English is divided into stressed syllables and light syllables. Stressed syllables and light syllables are combined according to a certain pattern and repeatedly combined into a poem, which sounds cadence and cadence, forming the rhythm of poetry. Disyllabic words have stress and secondary stress, which can be regarded as stress and light reading according to rhythm. Read the following two poems: Alone, she cut and tied the grain and sang a song "I" Rancho. The fixed collocation pattern of two lines of poetry is: light-heavy. Each line is reproduced four times, thus forming the rhythm of these two lines of poetry. Some fixed light and heavy collocation is called "foot", which is equivalent to "bar" in music score. Light and heavy are the steps of these two lines of poetry. The number of times light and heavy collocations appear in a line of poetry is called steps. These two lines of poetry have four steps, so they are called four-step poems. Iambic foot: If there are two syllables in a step, the former is light and the latter is heavy, then this step is called iambic foot, 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 admiration, excitement, superiority, surrounding, appearance, desire, attack, supply, belief, return and so on. So it is convenient to write English poems in iambic. In other words, iambic rhymes conform to the rules of English pronunciation. So iambic is the most commonly used in English poetry, and 90% of English poetry is written in iambic. The first two poems are iambic poems. Empty house alexander pope, you hit your head, and Van Civit, please knock at the door, there is no body at home. You pat your head and feel that inspiration will come soon. Knock all you want. Nobody will open the door. Head, head. Imagine, verb: think, imagine. The basic iambic type of this poem is iambic, with five steps per line. So the meter of this poem is called iambic pentameter. The beat of a poem is composed of the type and number of steps contained in the line.