I. meter and verse.
1. This rhythm, which has dominated English rhythm for the past six centuries, is strictly called "stressed syllable"; In other words, it is a pattern with regular number of syllables and stressed syllables.
2. It is different from the pure "syllable rhythm" in Anglo-Saxon poetry (the number of syllables in each line is variable rather than the number of stresses); It is also different from pure (spoken) French poetry (the number of syllables per line, not the number of stresses, is fixed).
Second, the parallelism of English prosody as a rhyme.
Except for all the nuances, the traditional English rhythm is nothing more than the arrangement of rhymes: it is a continuous pattern of stressed syllables and unstressed syllables, and its regularity is higher than that required by ordinary spoken English. It should be pointed out that this is juxtaposition, not complete repetition, because although the rhyme is repeated, the actual pronunciation is not repeated. Strict prosodic parallelism lies in the strict alternation of stress and unstressed.