Poetry can be traced back to The Book of Songs, but it was a four-character poem at that time. Later, it developed into Yuefu, ancient poetry and modern poetry. Yuefu can sing in unison.
Classical poetry doesn't pay much attention to meter. Modern poetry pays attention to metrical poems, which are divided into metrical poems and quatrains (five words and seven words, six words, but few). At about the earliest time, poetry and song were inseparable. The ditty that people hum in their works is passed down from mouth to mouth, and finally a concise literary genre is formed when the words are finished.
"Ci" refers to the rich in music. The lyrics must be suitable for this song. Ci is a unique poetic style, which sprouted in the Southern Dynasties and is a new literary style in the Sui and Tang Dynasties.
In the Song Dynasty, after a long period of continuous development, Ci entered its heyday. Words were originally called "inflections" or "inflections". Therefore, it can be said that poetry is tailored to get rid of songs, and words are tailored to adapt to songs.
Extended data:
From the appearance, the poems and sentences are neat, but the words are not neat. Poetry can be put forward at will, even without a title, and words have a unified class name-epigraph.
Metric poems only use flat rhymes, rhyme to the end, rhyme every other sentence, and the first sentence can be suppressed or not; The words are flat and even, with rhyme in the middle and variable rhyme feet, but according to the rules of meter.
The second couplet and the third couplet of metrical poems must be antithetical, but if they are antithetical, they are much more flexible and have no unified requirements. From the perspective of language style, the language of poetry tends to be professional, while the language of writing tends to be gorgeous. As far as the expression of artistic conception is concerned, poetry should be cautious in any case, and the words need not be pretentious, which can properly meet the readers' reading expectations.
Poetry preaches the life flavor tends to be bookish, while the quality of life preached by ci tends to be singing and dancing; Poetry is more euphemistic when it is against the three falsehoods, and words are more direct when it is against the three falsehoods.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Poetry; Baidu Encyclopedia-Words