It may be distinguished from prose by its compression, frequent use of conventions of metre and rhyme, use of the line as a formal unit, heightened vocabulary, and freedom of syntax.

言简意赅而不同于散文，规则使用节拍和押韵的习惯，行为正式单位，词汇升华，造句灵活。

youdao

It's a provisional ending. It's not a rhyme word, and so it doesn't constitute the end of a unit of sense as a rhyme word would in most heroic couplets.

它不是真的结尾，不是韵脚，因此它不像大部分英雄双韵体中的韵脚词一样，标志着一个意思表达的完结。

youdao

It's a provisional ending. It's not a rhyme word, and so it doesn't constitute the end of a unit of sense as a rhyme word would in most heroic couplets.

它不是真的结尾，不是韵脚，因此它不像大部分英雄双韵体中的韵脚词一样,标志着一个意思表达的完结。

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