※ 引述《dale (冰城城主)》之銘言： : 完全和中文一樣的對仗當然沒有，因為英文不是中文。 : 但挾制音韻、節奏的格式還是有的，例如史詩用到的 heroic couplets； : 不知道他對這種格式的看法是……？ : 以下摘自 "The Knight's Portrait"（Chaucer）前四行。 : A knyght ther was, and that a worthy man, : That fro the tyme that he first bigan : To riden out, he loved chivalrie, : Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisie. : 每行十個音節，一、二行和三、四行節奏、音節輕重幾乎一模一樣； : 一、二行壓韻，三、四行壓韻，然後每行各自可以獨自表達一個情境。 : 如果他對中、英文詩之間的比較有興趣，請他不要害羞， : 這裡隨時歡迎他來玩耍。^^ 我稍微補充一點，真正 Heroic Couplet 的全盛時代是到 Restoration 1660以後， 尤其是 Alexander Pope 堪稱這種英雄雙行體之王。 他以這種形式做出了荷馬史詩 的翻譯。可以去Project Gutenberg下載。還有一個特徵，就是每兩行後以標點符號結尾 ，稱為 closed. 在此舉出戲仿英雄體 Rape of the Lock 描述的一段: On her white Breast a sparkling Cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss, and Infidels adore. Her lively Looks a sprightly Mind disclose, Quick as her Eyes, and as unfix'd as those: Favours to none, to all she Smiles extends, Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the Sun, her Eyes the Gazers strike, And, like the Sun, they shine on all alike. 事實上，還曾經有七音步的俳句風行一時，尤其是在 Queen Elizabeth I 的時代， 稱之 fourteener, 亦即一行擁有十四音節。在George Chapman的Homer 翻譯，或是以下 Arthur Golding翻譯Ovid 的 Metamorphoses: Then sprang up first the golden age, which of it selfe maintainde The truth and right of every thing unforct and unconstrainde. There was no feare of punishment, there was no threatning lawe In brazen tables nayled up, to keepe the folke in awe. There was no man would crouch or creepe to Judge with cap in hand, They lived safe without a Judge, in everie Realme and lande. (Book 1, 103-128, consulting NAEL Vol.1 pp.600-1) -- 請聽史前第一位去死團團員的怒吼： "Sight hateful, sight tormenting! thus these two Imparadis't in one anothers arms The happier Eden, shall enjoy thir fill Of bliss on bliss, while I to Hell am thrust, Where neither joy nor love, but fierce desire,... - Paradise Lost. 4.505-510 --

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