今天读一首描写曾经的雾都伦敦11月份的天气的诗。这首诗也叫“November”，这里取名No，是取用了诗篇中重复最多的“no”，Repetition反复是诗歌的一种主要修辞手法，通过不断地重复，给读者描述了伦敦11月天气什么都看不到，什么都无法享受的糟糕天气。
诗歌一定要大声朗诵，否则就失去了读诗至少一半的意义！
Type of Work and Year Written
.......Thomas Hood's "November" (also entitled "No") is a lyric poem centering on the fog and gloom of a November day in London. He completed it in 1844. The copy on this page appeared in the third volume of The Works of Thomas Hood, published in London by Edward Moxon and Company.
Theme and Summary
The theme of the poem is the bleakness of a November day in London. A heavy fog—and perhaps a bit of smog from chimney smoke—obscures everything: the sun, the moon, the steeples, the roadways, the parks, even the faces of people on the streets.
Because of the fog, travel ceases. Consequently, there are no mail deliveries and no ships arriving with news from foreign countries. Moreover, visitors stay away from the inner rings of Regent's Park and Hyde Park, where elegant people tend to congregate. And, because autumn has stripped the leaves from the trees, killed the flowers and fruits, and banished birds, bees, and butterflies, there is nothing left to cheer those venturing through the city.
According data provided by Lonely Planet, Weather2Travel, and Frommers (Web sites), London has two hours of sunshine on an average November day. Rain falls on twenty-one days.
End Rhyme尾音押韵
The poem contains rhyming couplets in lines 1-2, 4-5, 7-8, 9-10, 11-12, 16-17, and 18-19. In addition, Line 3 rhymes with line 6, line 20 with 22, and line 21 with 24. A rhyming triplet occurs in lines 16, 17, and 18.
Verse Format
The poem consists mainly of iambs in lines of varying lengths. Following are examples of iambic dimeter, iambic trimeter, iambic tetrameter, and iambic pentameter.
iambic 抑扬格
iambic dimeter两音步抑扬格
iambic trimeter三音步抑扬格
iambic tetrameter四音步抑扬格
iambic pentameter五音步抑扬格
1..................2
No SUN—..|..no MOON
(Line 1, iambic dimeter)
1....................2............... 3...........
No SKY—..|..no EARTH..|..ly VIEW
(Line 4, iambic trimeter)
1...............2.............. 3...............4
No NEWS..|..from AN..|..y FOR..|..eign COAST
(Line 17, iambic tetrameter)
1.........2.................. 3................4.............5
No DAWN—..|..no DUSK—..|..no PROP..|..er TIME..|..of DAY
(Line 3, iambic pentameter)
Notes
T'other side the way: The other side of the street.
Row: Street with the word Row in its name. Examples of such streets in London are Savile Row, Paternoster Row, Ironmonger Row, Church Row, Rochester Row, and Rotten Row.
Crescent: Series of linked buildings formed into the shape of an arc or a crescent. An example is Lansdowne Crescent in London.
No inkling of the way: No directions, signposts, etc., indicating how to go from one place to another.
Ring: Ring-shaped gathering place in London's Hyde Park or Regency Park. People would meet there to socialize or exchange news.
Alliteration头韵
.......Alliteration is the repetition of a consonant sound. It occurs frequently in the poem to enhance its appeal to the ear.