Tentative remarks on Chinese metrics
浅说 "拍板"
Wayne Schlepp 施文林

Abstract 摘要
This paper sets out a metric system for Chinese verse for most periods and for tonal and non-tonal verse alike. On the assumption that meter and the phonology of language are not identical systems, it proposes stress as the feature which marks rhythm. A description of the foot and colon is given and problems of scansion are discussed. The notion that variations of delivery do not change meter or scansion explains in part why the metric scheme proposed can apply to a broad range of verse.

本文研讨中国诗学中的「拍板」问题．首先论及拍踏与节奏中之某些音节的具体关系．次者再探讨拍板与「平仄」的关系．按文中所提出的拍板系统, 轻重音和长短音皆可用以表现出拍板的特色．重音一般洛于节奏的第一位, 长音在第二位．有的诗像民歌儿童诗歌乐府等轻重的表现较为显明而律诗，词，曲等中长短则较为重要．虽然「平仄」素被认为律诗之一种重要特性, 可是按文中的系统, 拍板却占较重要之地位而平仄则次之．平仄非律诗之主体, 其特别用处是使「四模型句」中的每一句都有异样的形式, 因之给律诗加以别的诗所无之色彩。

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