Five-character quatrains and five-character poems are branches of five-character ancient poems.
Five-character quatrains: originated from Yuefu poems in Han Dynasty, deeply influenced by folk songs in Six Dynasties, and matured in Tang Dynasty. After the Tang Dynasty, quatrains in the near aspect prevailed, and the meter was the same as the first, last or middle four sentences in eight metrical poems. Therefore, some people in the Tang Dynasty attributed quatrains to metrical poems in their poetry collections.
Five-character verse: a kind of modern poetry. Strict metrical poetry originated in the period of Qi Yongming in the Southern Dynasties, and metrical poetry requires the unity of words.
The number of sentences and the number of words are different.
Five-character quatrains have four sentences in each sentence, five words in each sentence and ***20 words.
Five-character rhymes generally stipulate 8 sentences, each with ***40 words. If there are only six sentences, it is called Xiaofa or Sanyun poem; More than 8 sentences, that is, 10 sentences, are called exclusive laws or long laws.
3. Different requirements
The middle four sentences of the five-character rhyme, namely, 3, 4, 5 and 6, should be opposed respectively; You don't have to type five words.
However, no matter quatrains or metrical poems, they should follow the rules of poetry, and have the requirement of flatness, that is, the ambiguity of each sentence should be clear135,246.
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