The main feature that distinguishes poetry from other written
genres is succinctness(精練), a tight structure and higher
concentration of content - crowded into fewer words - than you
usually find in ordinary prose.
Poetry can be analyzed for its form and its content. Ideally,
the two should reflect and reinforce each other in expressing the
message of the poem.
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(1)Number of lines:
The number of lines may be a clue that a
poem belongs to a special verse form, for example, a sonnet, which
in Chinese is calls a 十四行詩, or a limerick, which normally has
five lines. A poem or stanza with one line is called a monostich,
one with two lines is a couplet; with three, tercet or triplet;
four, quatrain; six, hexastich; seven, heptastich; eight, octave.
Also note the number of stanzas.
(2)Meter:
English has stressed and unstressed syllables. English
is considered a stress-timed language, unlike French, which is a
syllable-timed language. In poetry, stressed and unstressed syllables
are often put together in specific patterns. In poetry these patterns
are called meter, which means 'measure'. The meters you find in poetry
are the same ones we use in everyday speech. The main difference is that
in speech these patterns tend to occur spontaneously and without any
special order; in poetry they are usually chosen and arranged.
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就是那時候，聽到一聲無可言喻的哀嚎。
有如蠟燭的火焰「啪」地一聲完全燒盡，
包含所有悲傷的痛苦聲音。
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