三、What are the characteristics of poems? Can you give me some examples? Poems have beats. They may rhyme or may not rhyme ['raim] — but they have to have rhythms. ['riðəm] This beat is not always obvious, but it’s usually there.
On and on the river flows
望夫处，江悠悠。
Never looking back,
化为石，不回头。
Transformed into stone.
山头日日风复雨， 行人归来石应语。
Day by day upon the mountain top,
wind and rain revolve.
I saw a fish-pond all on fire Our first football match
I saw a fish-pond all on fire,
We would have won…
I saw a house bow to a squire,
If Jack had scored that goal,
If we’d had just a few more minutes,
if we had trained harder,
if Ben had passed the ball to Joe, If we’d had thousands of fans
screaming, If I hadn’t taken my eye off the
