The use of the word is analogous to its use in verse, with its traditional metrical units of iambus, trochee, dactyl and so on.

节拍在此处的其在诗文中长音节的抑扬短长等作相似。

In that shoreless ocean, at thy silently listening smile my songs would swell in melodies, free as waves, free from all bondage of words.

在无边的海洋上，在你静听的微笑中，我的歌唱抑扬成调，像海波般的自由，不受字句的束缚。

Of the kinds of words we have enumerated it may be observed that compounds are most in place in the dithyramb, strange words in heroic, and metaphors in iambic poetry.

在上面所列举的词的种类中，我们可以看到复合词现在酒神颂里，外来词现在英雄诗里，隐喻现在抑扬格诗歌里。