西方英文诗歌诗体纵览(9)

"She is neither white nor brown,
But as the heavens fair,
There is none hath a form so divine
In the earth or in the air."
"Such an one did I meet, good Sir,
Such an angelic face.
Who like a queen, like a nymph, did appear
By her gait, by her grace."
"She hath left me all alone,
All alone as unknown.
Who sometimes did lead me with herself,
And me loved as her own."
"What’s the cause that she leaves you alone
And a new way doth take,
Who loved you once as her own
And her joy did make?"
"I have loved her all my youth,
But now old as you see,
Love likes not the falling fruit
From the withered tree."
（这是一首叙事体民谣，诗中很多行经过了跨行连续处理，主要是为了满足民歌的4-3-4-3 步调，有时也为了押韵）
以下则是一首讲故事形式的民谣。这样的民谣在当时的英国人眼里情同当今人们阅读小说作品一样。
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
It is an ancient Mariner,
And he stoppeth one of three.
"By thy long gray beard and glittering eye,