refrain

Japanese: refrain
refrain

…In the West, this type of poetic form is supported by the concept of a stanza or strophe, which can be thought of as a kind of rhythmic unit consisting of several lines. Each stanza has rules for the placement of rhymes and the position of refrains. Japanese tanka and haiku are poetic forms determined only by the number of syllables, but because the whole poem is extremely short and compressed, the form is very definite, and from this point of view it seems that the need for support by rhyme was not felt. …

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Japanese:

…西欧の場合,こうした詩型は詩節もしくは聯(れん)stanza,stropheの概念に支えられているが,これはいわば複数の詩行から成るリズム単位の一種であると考えられる。そして各詩節ごとに脚韻の配置や繰返し句refrainの位置などの規則がある。日本の短歌や俳句は音数だけから決定される詩型だが,全体が極度に短く圧縮されているために形式としての確定性が強く,この点からも韻による支持の必要が感じられなかったものと思われる。…

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