Daktylos

Japanese: daktylos
Daktylos

…In contrast, Greek and Latin poetry, which has a clear distinction between long and short sounds, combines two or three of these long and short sounds to create various feet, and repeats the same feet a certain number of times to form one line of poetry. For example, Homer's epics use six daktylos feet, a combination of long and short tones, to form one line. English is strongly conscious of the accent of strength and weakness, so British poetry forms the Greek-style feet mentioned above by combining strength and weakness. However, the placement of strength and weakness in this case is not necessarily specific to each word, but may be determined by the overall flow, and in modern times many poems are read in a rhythm where a soft sound is added before a strong sound. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "daktylos" are listed below.

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Japanese:

…これに対して音韻に長短の別が明瞭なギリシア,ラテンの詩法は,これら長音と短音とを二つもしくは三つ組み合わせてさまざまな音脚をつくり,同一音脚を一定数繰り返して詩の1行を形成する。たとえばホメロスの叙事詩は,長短短の組合せによるダクテュロスdaktylosという音脚を六つ重ねて1行としている。英語は強弱のアクセントを強く意識するので,イギリスの詩法は上記のギリシア風の音脚を強弱の組合せによって形成するが,この場合の強弱の配置は,必ずしも個々の語に固有のものではなく,全体の流れから決定される場合もあって,近代では多くの詩が強音の前に弱音を添えたリズムで読まれる。…

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