What's clever here though is the poem is so close metrically to being iambic pentameter, five metric feet.

这里的聪明于每节有五行都使用了六音步抑扬诗韵。

SVO languages usually have articles like " the" before the noun, giving it an iambic sound pattern.

SVO 语言通常名词前会有像“the”这样的冠词，使其具有抑扬韵律。

This is a sonnet written in the strict Petrarchan pattem, with 14 lines of iambic pentameter rhyming abba abba cdodee 2.

这是一首用严的彼特拉克风写成的十四行诗，有 14 行抑扬五音节押韵 abba abba cdodee 2。

) " I see, I see, I see, " is the reply, as perfunctory an iambic trimeter as you will ever hear.

有两个音节。 ）“我明白， 我明白，我明白，” 他回答道，这是你听过的最敷衍的抑扬三音步。

For two things do my thoughts turn now and then to London. I should like to hear the long note of a master's violin, or the faultless cadence of an exquisite voice, and I should like to see pictures.

有两件事让我不时想到伦敦。我想听到大师的小提琴悠长的音符，或美妙的声音完美无瑕的抑扬顿挫，我想看图画。