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Masculine Rhyme（阳韵）: The rhyme is on the stressed syllables. e.g. white, light, delight; make, take, lake Feminine Rhyme（阴韵）: The rhyme is on the unstressed syllables or more than two syllables. e.g. turtle, fertile; beautifully, wonderfully 8. Rhyme Scheme（韵式）: 1) aabb（Running rhyme 连续韵）: Work while you work, and play while you play, a For that is the way to be happy and gay. a All that you do, do with your might, b Things done by halves are never done right. b 2) abab（Alternative Rhyme 交叉韵）: How do you like to go up in a swing. a Up in the air so blue? b Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing a Ever a child can do! b 3) abba（Enclosing Rhyme 首尾韵）: I hold it true , whate’er befall ; a I feel it when I sorrow most ; b ’Tis better to have loved and lost b Than never to have loved at all. a picturesque beauty beauty of artistic conception Visual form Poetic line Letter writing Arrangement of lines Picture in imagination Imagery catching/seizing Imagination space Mood, Artistic conception and theme/meaning To imagine or fancy is a kind of communication with the poem as well as a kind of aesthetic activity, that is, to communicate with the poet and to find and appreciate beauty in the poem. Is the Moon Tired?Christina Rossetti Is the Moon tired? She looks so pale Within her misty veil; She scales the sky from east to west, And takes no rest. Before the coming of the night The Moon shows shows papery white; Before the dawning of the day, She fades away. 1) Iambus（抑扬格） 2) Trochee（扬抑格） 3) Spondee（扬扬格） 4) Anapaest（抑抑扬格） 6) Amphibrach（抑扬抑格） 7) Pyrrhic（抑抑格） 5) Dactyl（扬抑抑格） For the dear God who loveth us （扬扬格） （抑抑格） （抑扬抑格） Foot （音步） Monometre Dimetre Tr