Poetry themes mainly include ancient poems and new poems.
There is no certain meter in ancient poetry. Ancient "leisure poems" can be divided into four-character poems, five-character ancient poems (five ancient poems), seven-character ancient poems (seven ancient poems) and miscellaneous poems. Modern poetry has strict metrical rules, such as the number of sentences, the number of words, rhyming, leveling and so on. It is an ancient metrical poem, which generally includes metrical poems (five laws and seven laws), quatrains (five sentences and seven verses) and lines (five words and seven words).
The difference between metrical poems and quatrains;
There are four quatrains * * * and eight poems * * *. A poem with more than eight sentences is called exclusion. Quatrains can be opposite or not; However, the neck couplet of couplet and rhyme must be opposite. Both metrical poems and quatrains require continuous writing. One or two sentences of the law poem are the first couplet; Three or four sentences are antithetical sentences; Five or six sentences are necklaces; Seven or eight sentences are endings.
The genre of ancient poetry can be divided into two categories: ancient poetry and new poetry. Ancient poems can be divided into modern poems and ancient poems (ancient style), and modern poems can be divided into metrical poems (metrical poems [five-character metrical poems, seven-character metrical poems], quatrains [five-character quatrains, seven-character quatrains]), words and songs. New poems include free poems (vernacular poems produced since the May 4th Movement), prose poems (lyric poems expressed in prose) and folk songs (poems circulated by the people and created collectively).
Classical poetry:
Including ancient poems (poems before Tang Dynasty) and Chu Ci. Poems in ancient poetry genres such as Song, Xing, Newspaper, Qu and Ling are also ancient poems. Classical poetry does not talk about antithesis and rhymes freely.
Modern poetry:
Modern poetry, compared with classical poetry, is also called modern poetry, which is a kind of metrical poetry formed in the Tang Dynasty. There are two kinds, and there are strict rules on the number of words, sentences, level tones and rhymes.
Words:
Also known as poetry, long and short sentences, songs, music words, Yuefu and so on. Its characteristics: the tone has a fixed frame, the sentence has a fixed number and the word has a fixed tone. The number of words can be divided into long tune (above 9 1 word), middle tune (59-90 words) and minor tune (below 58 words).
Qu:
Also known as Yu Jihe Yuefu. Yuanqu includes Sanqu and Zaju. Sanqu rose in the Jin Dynasty and flourished in the Yuan Dynasty, and its style was similar to that of Ci.