1. Five-character quatrains: five words for each sentence, * * * four sentences, * * * twenty crosses. For example, Li Bai's "Thinking about a Quiet Night": "The foot of the bed is bright, is there frost? . Looking up, I found that it was moonlight, sinking again, and I suddenly thought of home. "
2. Seven-character quatrains: each sentence has seven words, * * four sentences and * * twenty-eight words. For example, Wang Zhihuan's "In the Lodge of the Heron": "The mountains cover the day, and the ocean drains the golden river. But as long as you go up a flight of stairs, you can broaden your horizons by 300 miles. "
3. Five-character rhyme: each sentence has five words, * * * eight sentences with * * * forty words, and the sentence pattern has a prescribed rhyme way. For example, Du Fu's "Remembering Brothers on a Moonlit Night": "Wanderers listen to drums and autumn geese sing. He knows that the dew will be frost tonight, and how bright the moonlight is at home! . "
4. Seven-character rhyme: seven words for each sentence, eight sentences for * * * and fifty-six words for * *. The same sentence pattern has its own rhyming method. For example, Bai Juyi's Song of Eternal Sorrow: "The emperor of China longed for the beauty that might shake an empire. After years of searching on his throne, he never found it. Until a child of the Yang family was born in the inner room before she grew up, no one knew her. "
In addition to the above formats, there are many other forms and formats of China's poems, such as five-character metrical poems, seven-character metrical poems, couplets, quatrains, metrical poems and so on. These formats also have certain requirements for rhyme, flatness and rhythm, so as to present the unique charm and style of China's ancient poems.