Rhythmic poetry is a type of modern poetry, which requires a uniform number of words in the verses
Formal features
Rhymed poetry in a broad sense is very tolerant, allowing the existence of rigid patterns and allowing Three flat tails. For example, Cui Hao's "Yellow Crane Tower" is a typical representative.
The rhythm of rhymed poetry in the narrow sense is very strict, with strict regulations on words, rhymes, levels, and antitheses.
The number of sentences is fixed
Rhythm poems usually have eight sentences each. If there are more than eight sentences, they are called row rhythm or long rhythm. A rhythmic poem with eight lines, every two lines form a couplet, totaling four lines. It is customary to call the first couplet the first couplet, the second couplet the jaw couplet, the third couplet the neck couplet, and the fourth couplet the tail couplet. The upper sentence of each couplet is called a sentence, and the lower sentence is called a couplet. The two sentences form a couplet relationship; the relationship between the couplet of the preceding couplet and the sentence of the following couplet is called the relationship of adjacent sentences.
The number of words in the verses is uniform, and each sentence may have five characters or seven characters. They are called five-character verses and seven-character verses respectively. The Five Laws stipulate that each sentence has five characters, and the whole sentence has 40 characters; the Seven Laws stipulates that each sentence has seven characters, and the whole song has 56 characters. There are also six-character poems in each sentence and a total of 48 characters, which are called six-character poems. There are very few handed down works. [6] [4]
Strict rhyme
Rhythm poetry usually rhymes with flat tones, and must rhyme according to the words in the rhyme book. In principle, only the original rhyme can be used, not the adjacent rhyme; even if it is a little looser, only the first sentence that enters the rhyme is allowed to use the adjacent rhyme, which is called "borrowing rhyme".
Rhythm poetry also requires that the whole poem rhymes with one rhyme, that is, one rhyme to the end, and no rhyme changes are allowed in the middle. The second, fourth, sixth and eighth lines rhyme, and the first line may or may not rhyme. For the five-rhythm, if the first sentence does not fall into rhyme, it is a normal example, and if it does, it will be a variation; for the seven-rhythm, if the first sentence does not rhyme, it will be a regular example, and if it does not, it will be a variation.