The use of repeated chapters and sentences enhances the sense of rhythm and music of poetry, forming a rhythmic beauty of chanting and sighing in circles, giving people the feeling of "ever-changing" and "circling the beam for three days" with a euphemistic and long aftertaste.
The repetition of chapters and sentences, that is, the repetition of chapters and songs, is a kind of expression technique of poetry, that is, the syntax of the upper and lower sentences or paragraphs of a poem is basically the same, and only a few corresponding words are changed in the middle, and it is sung repeatedly.
Application of the Book of Songs
The lyric art of The Book of Songs can be analyzed from three aspects: musical effect, strengthening theme, structure and progressive meaning. The appearance of this lyric form depends not only on the musical nature of the aria in The Book of Songs, but also on the performance characteristics of folk songs.
A remarkable feature of The Book of Songs is to express one's feelings by repeating chapters and singing in harmony, which is widely used in Guofeng, which maintains strong folk song characteristics, and Xiaoya, which is close to Guofeng.
The so-called repeated chorus refers to some articles in the Book of Songs, which are almost identical in structure and language, with only a few words changed in the middle, and sometimes even one or two words changed. Through the repeated appearance of various chapters, the unique form of the Book of Songs in structure and expression has been formed.
The appearance of this form is determined by the nature of chorus in The Book of Songs. In Historical Records, Sima Qian of the Han Dynasty said that "350 poems were written by Confucius".