英文詞學問 & metre pdf下載:
English poetry begins with metre. Without metrical writing, the result would be prose 散文, not verse 詩詞.
The soul of the English language, to poets, is the rhythm 節奏. Rhyming 押韻 and word choice 字詞 and all other poetic devices 修辭 follow the basic rhythm of a line.
When the rhythm of each line becomes regular throughout the entire poem, that structure is called the metre, and the art of finding this regularity is called scansion (you 'scan' the lines to find the rhythmic pattern).
Take, as an example, this line:
'From time to time and for as long as it takes.'
If we take 'x' to mean an unstressed beat, and '/' to mean a stressed one, then we'll scan the line as follows:
x / x / x x x / xx /
This isn't regular, as it doesn't have a pattern, so the line is probably prose, not verse.
As a second example, see:
'He bangs the drum and makes a dreadful noise.'
'If winter comes, can Spring be far behind?'
For both lines, the stressed and unstressed beats are regular, following this pattern:
x / x / x / x / x /
Or, five sets of 'weak-strong'. In technical terms, one set of 'weak-strong' is called an 'iamb', and five in Greek is 'pente', so we call these two lines' metre 'iambic pentameter'.
In the case where the poetry needs to fit an existing piece of music, as in the job of a lyricist, the metre of each line would then have to conform with the rhythm of strong- and weak-beats already existent as implied by the melody.
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