本贴: ° 方舵主说得不准确。：） (641字) YXX 2012-01-16 19:59:47
couplet是抑扬格五韵步对偶押韵句，韵脚aa，bb,cc, ...

heroic couplet是由抑扬格五韵步对偶押韵句组成的诗 (英文诗的一种传统体裁），通常内容节奏比较阳刚，史诗风格，多用于叙事诗。

十四行诗最后两句是couplet, 不能说是heroic couplet. :)

例子：

O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream
My great example, as it is my theme!
Though deep yet clear, though gentle yet not dull;
Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.

韵脚;aa, bb

变体：

Triplet（三行体）（比如雪莱的”西风颂“也是）

Nor let him then enjoy supreme command;
But fall, untimely, by some hostile hand,
And lie unburied on the barren sand!

韵脚：aba

Alexandrine体：

Her lofty courser, in the court below,
Who his majestic rider seems to know,
Proud of his purple trappings, paws the ground,
And champs the golden bit, and spreads the foam around.

Alexandrine and Triplet体：

My Tyrians, at their injur’d queen’s command,
Had toss’d their fires amid the Trojan band;
At once extinguish’d all the faithless name;
And I myself, in vengeance of my shame,
Had fall’n upon the pile, to mend the fun’ral flame.

韵脚：aa bbb