Appreciation of poetry.ppt

? Appreciation of poetry: ? Versification( 韵律)? Foot( 音步):a unit of poetic meter of stressed and unstressed syllable ? Monometer; Dimeter ; Trimeter ; Tetrameter ? Pentameter: iambic pentameter The land was ours before we were the land ’ s. ? Hexameter: if in iambics, it is called Alexandrine characterized in Pope ’s. ? Heptameter; octameter ? Meter( 格): the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. ? Iambic( 抑扬格) I saw the sky descending black and white . ? Trochaic( 扬抑格) Let her live to earn her dinner .? anapest( 抑抑扬) There are many who say that a dog has his day . ? Dactyl( 扬抑抑) : Take her up tenderly ? Note: ? Foot is not to be confused with meter, though the names for feet end with “-meter ”. Meter is based on syllables, indicating how stressed and unstressed syllables are arranged. Foot is applied with a single line, indicating how many meters are employed in that line. ? Stanza:a unit of lines related ? Couplet( 双韵,对偶句): stanza of two lines, usu. with end-rhymes. The Octosyllabic couplet is iambic or trochaic tetrameter. ? Heroic couplet: a rhyming couplet of iambic pentameter, for in 18th century England, it is often used in epics. ? Triplet( 三行联句)? Terza rima (三行体): a three-line stanza linked by rhyme to the next stanza: aba bcb cdc Shelley ’s “ Ode to the West Wind ”? Quatrain( 四行诗). The heroic quatrain is iambic pentamet