Abstract:
An investigation of The Book of Songs shows that its categories of object fronting basically agree with those in prose. The relationship between object fronting and rhyme presents us two categories: the first category was determined by grammatical conditions which allowed no variation on the part of the poet, such as the fronting of some object pronouns but the second depended upon the poet's deliberate variation, such as the fronting of noun object. As a result, when the poet was organizing his lines, he tried his best to make an objectfronting line occur at the rhymical foot. In The Book of Songs, those lines which fell into the “noun+BE+verb” pattern might be deformed because they departed from the context.
