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如果一个
音步
中有两个音节，前者为轻，后者为重，则
这种音步叫抑扬格音步
，其专业术语是（
iamb, iambic.
）。
轻读是“抑”，重读是“扬”，一轻一重，故称抑扬格。
英语中有大量的单词，
其发音都是一轻一重，
如
adore,
excite,
above,
around,
appear,
besides,
attack,
supply,
believe,
return
等，所以用英语写诗，用抑扬格就很便利。
也就是
说，抑扬格很符合英语的发音规律。因此，在英文诗
歌中用得最多的便是抑扬格，百分之
九十的英文诗都是用抑
扬格写成的。
Iambic
pentameter
is
a
commonly
used
type
of
metrical
line
in
traditional
poetry
and
verse
drama.
The
term
describes
the
rhythm
that
the
words
establish
in
that
line,
which
is
measured
in
small
groups
of
syllables
called
The
word
refers
to
the
type
of
foot
that
is
used,
known
as
the
iamb,
which in English is an unstressed syllable
followed by a
stressed
syllable.
The
word
indicates
that
a
line
has five of these
These
terms
originally
applied
to
the
quantitative
meter
of
classical
poetry.
They
were
adopted
to
describe
the
equivalent
meters in English
accentual-syllabic
verse.
Different languages
express rhythm in
different ways. In
Ancient Greek and
Latin,
the rhythm was
created through the alternation of short and long
syllables.
In
English,
the
rhythm
is
created
through
the
use
of
stress, alternating
between unstressed and stressed syllables. An
English
unstressed
syllable
is
equivalent
to
a
classical
short
syllable,
while
an
English
stressed
syllable
is
equivalent
to
a
classical long
syllable.
When a pair of
syllables is arranged as a
short
followed by a long, or an unstressed followed by a
stressed,
pattern,
that
foot
is
said
to
be
The
English
word
word
is
made
up
of
two
syllables
(
—
peze
and
is
pronounced with the
stress on the second syllable (
—
PEZE
rather than
< br>TRA
—
peze
up
of
five
such
pairs
of
short/long,
or
unstressed/stressed,
syllables.
Iambic
rhythms
come
relatively
naturally
in
English.
Iambic
pentameter
is
the
most
common
meter
in
English
poetry;
it
is
used in
many of the major English poetic forms, including
blank
verse,
the
heroic
couplet,
and
some
of
the
traditional
rhymed
stanza
forms.
William
Shakespeare
used
iambic
pentameter
in
his plays and sonnets.