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

节拍此处用途与其诗文长音节抑扬短长等作用相似。

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

无边海洋上，你静听微笑，歌唱抑扬成调，像海波般自由，不受字句。

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.

上面所列举词种类，们可以看到复合词最常出现酒神颂里，外来词最常出现英雄诗里，隐喻最常出现抑扬格诗歌里。