alexandrin

Japanese: alexandrin
alexandrin

...For example, in French, there is little awareness of the strength and weakness of sounds or the length of a sound, so rhythm is measured solely by the number of phonemes, and only a strong voice is considered in a line or at the end of a line. The Alexandrin, a line widely used in French poetry, consists of 12 syllables, and the regular format is to place the end of a line on the sixth syllable. The so-called 7-5 and 5-7 rhythms of Japanese poetry are similar in that they only consider the number of syllables, but in reality, they are organized by counting long syllables as two syllables and short and short syllables as one syllable. ...

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Japanese:

…具体例をあげると,フランス語では音の強弱や長短の意識が薄いので,リズムはもっぱら音韻の数だけで測られ,かろうじて一つの詩行もしくは詩行の中の句切りに強声が意識されるにすぎない。フランス詩でひろく用いられるアレクサンドランalexandrinという詩行は,1行が12の音綴から成り,その6音目に句切りを置くのを正格とする。日本の詩歌の,いわゆる七五調や五七調も,音数だけを問題にする点ではこれに近いが,実際には長音を2音と数え,促音や撥音を1音と数えるなどの整理が加えられている。…

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