They had a clearness which was to be found nowhere in the wind, and a sequence which was to be found nowhere in nature.
这声音清晰可闻，狂风根本发不出这种声响，它的声音抑扬入调，不是大自然的声响。Ballad meter is usually iambic. The number of unstressed syllables in each line may vary. The second and fourth lines rhyme.
民谣的韵脚往往采用抑扬格的形式，每一行中非重度音节的数目不等，二、四行押韵。A particular arrangement of words in poetry, such as iambic pentameter, determined by the kind and number of metrical units in a line.
诗歌中字词的特定安排，由一行诗中韵律单位的类型和数量而定，如抑扬格五音步诗行。A couplet written in iambic pentameter is called a heroic couplet.
五步抑扬格的双韵体称英雄双韵体。The soft modulation of her voice soothed the infant .
她声调柔和的抑扬使婴儿安静下来。Each line falls naturally into iambic patterns, with unaccented syllable followed by accented syllable.
每一行都自然地形成抑扬格，每一个非重音音节之后都跟着一个重音音节。He spoke in a southern Yorkshire voice, less inflected and singing than Winifred's northern one.
他说话用的是约克郡南部声调，比威妮弗雷德德北部声调较少抑扬变化和变音。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，象海波一般的自由，不受字句的束缚。He enunciated, quietly, but in something like his usual modulated and faintly histrionic tone.
他清晰地说，虽然是轻声的，却依旧是他平时那种抑扬有致，微微带些戏剧性的声调。