Rhythm—
Poetry doesn't have to rhyme, but it must have rhythm. Rhythm is called rhythm in English, which comes from Greece and means flowing, that is, moving from one point to another. How can we analyze the rhythm of English poetry with phonological footwork? Take metrical poems as an example. First, divide each line into several syllables, distinguish which syllables are stressed and which are unstressed, find out the form of their arrangement, and the number of times this arrangement appears in a line, that is, the number of steps contained in the line.
The so-called rhyme means that the same or similar stressed syllables appear in two or more corresponding positions. The rhyme of English poetry can be divided into complete rhyme and approximate rhyme (also called lack of rhyme). Whole rhyme means that the rhyme feet must be placed on stressed syllables starting with different consonants, in which the vowels are the same, and the consonants or other unstressed syllables after this vowel must also be the same. There are three kinds of approximate rhymes, that is, the last consonant is the same and the vowels in front are similar but different; The consonants after the same vowel are different, indicating homophonic; Stress vowels are different, and all consonants are the same, which is called homophonic consonants.
Another poetic method related to rhyme is alliteration, that is, the same phoneme (mainly consonant) appears repeatedly at the beginning of some related words.
The rhythm of English poetry is complicated, and it can be divided into two types according to the position of rhyming sounds in the line: ending rhyme and in-line rhyme. In-line rhyme means that the stressed syllable in the middle of a line rhymes with the last stressed syllable in the line.
According to the number of rhyming syllables, the answer can be divided into:
Single rhyme, also known as male rhyme, is limited to the last syllable stressed in the line and is powerful.
Double rhyme, also known as female rhyme, rhymes on two connected syllables, which are unstressed syllables and often give people a sense of lightness and elegance.
Three rhymes, that is, three connected syllables rhyme, are often used in humorous poems and satirical poems.