英文诗歌韵律范例
2014-11-20 21:34阅读：
一、步长 （Falling Meter）
两步：Dimeter — two feet
三步：Trimeter — three
feet
四步：Tetrameter — four
feet
五步：Pentameter — five
feet
六步：Hexameter — six
feet
七步：Heptameter — seven
feet
八步：Octameter — eight
feet
二、格式 (forms)
抑扬格（iamb）：是最常见的。《雪尘》 –
罗伯特·弗罗斯特
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
SPAN>
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.
扬抑格（trochee）：
Should you ask me,
whence these stories?
Whence these
legends and
traditions,
With the odours
of the forest,
With the dew and
damp of meadows,
Ah, distinctly
I remember it was in the bleak
December;
And each separate
dying ember wrought its ghost
upon the floor.
抑抑扬格（anapaest）：
The Assyrian came down like the wolf on
the fold,
And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and
gold;
And the sheen of their spears was like stars
on the sea,
When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep
Galilee.
Like the leaves of the forest when
Summer is green,
That host with their banners at sunset were
seen:
Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath
blown,….
For the Angel of Death spread his wings
on the blast…
And their hearts but once heaved, and forever
grew still!
扬抑抑格（dactyl）：
Just for a handful
of silver he left us
Just for a riband
to stick in his coat
扬扬格（spondee）：
很少使用。仅使用它不太可能写一首诗歌。一般作为以上四种格式的变体，掺起来一起用。
White founts falling in
the courts of the sun
And the Soldan of
Byzantium is smiling as they
run
这下，当你听到人们讨论五步抑扬格时，你就知道它的格式了吧？
摘自莎士比亚《罗密欧与朱丽叶》：
But, soft! what light through
yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the
sun.
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious
moon,
Who is already sick and pale with
grief,
五步抑扬格最常见了。这一眼看上去长长短短的诗歌，却是整整齐齐的格律诗。
