抑揚格

抑揚格，如果一個音步中有兩個音節，前者為輕，後者為重，則這種音步叫抑揚格音步，其專業術語是（iamb, iambic.）。

輕讀是“抑”，重讀是“揚”，一輕一重，故稱抑揚格。

抑揚格

如果一個音步中有兩個音節，前者為輕，後者為重，則這種音步叫抑揚格音步，其專業術語是（iamb, iambic.）。輕讀是“抑”，重讀是“揚”，一輕一重，故稱抑揚格。

英語中有大量的單詞，其發音都是一輕一重，如adore, excite, above, around, appear, besides, attack, supply, believe, return等，所以用英語寫詩，用抑揚格就很便利。也就是說，抑揚格很符合英語的發音規律。因此，在英文詩歌中用得最多的便是抑揚格，百分之九十的英文詩都是用抑揚格寫成的。下面的那兩句詩就是抑揚格詩。

例如：

Alone │she cuts │and binds│ the grain,

And sings │a me│lancho│ly strain.

An iamb or iambus is a metrical foot used in various types of poetry. Originally the term referred to one of the feet of the quantitative meter of classical Greek prosody: a short syllable followed by a long syllable (as in i-amb). This terminology was adopted in the description of accentual-syllabic verse in English, where it refers to a foot comprising an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable (as in a-bove).