The representative works of seven-character rhythmic poems are: Yellow Crane Tower by Cui Hao, Ascending the Mountain by Du Fu, Anding Tower by Li Shangyin, etc.
Seven-character verse is a genre of China's traditional poetry, which belongs to the category of modern poetry. Shen Yue's new style poems, which originated in Qi Yongming in the Southern Dynasty, paid attention to rhythm and duality, further developed and finalized in Shen Quanqi and Song Zhiwen in the early Tang Dynasty, and matured in Du Fu's hands in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
Seven-character metrical poem is strict, requiring the number of words in the poem to be uniform. It consists of eight sentences with seven words in each sentence. Every two sentences are a couplet, * * * quadruple, divided into first couplet, parallel couplet, neck couplet and tail couplet, and the middle two couplets require antithesis.
Seven-character metrical poems refer to poems with seven words and eight sentences, which conform to the norms of metrical poems. Its meter is very strict, and there are strict rules in words, rhymes, leveling and antithesis. Fixed length: eight sentences each, seven words each, * * * 56 words. The first and second sentences are called "first couplet", the third and fourth sentences are called "parallel couplet", the fifth and sixth sentences are called "neck couplet" and the seventh and eighth sentences are called "tail couplet".
Rhyme is strict: the whole article has four or five rhymes, which generally rhymes with even sentences, that is, the last word of the second, fourth, sixth and eighth sentences should have the same rhyme. The first sentence can be put on or off, usually with a flat voice and a rhyme to the end, without changing rhyme in the middle. It is also required to 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 of rhyme can be used in adjacent rhyme, which is called "borrowing rhyme" According to whether the first sentence rhymes or not, the seven-character rhyme can be divided into two formats: the first sentence rhymes and the first sentence does not rhyme, in which the first sentence rhymes in a positive case, which is different from the five-character rhyme.
pay attention to levelness. That is to say, to conform to the law of leveling, that is, under normal circumstances, two syllables (two words) are used as a step, and leveling is arranged alternately. According to the level of the first two words in the first sentence, the seven-character rhyme is divided into two parts: level and level. According to the law of parallel prose,
the seven-character rhyme has four standard sentence patterns: first, it is flat, even and flat (the word is flat at the beginning and flat at the end, which is called flat feet); Second, it is flat and flat (flat and flat, the last word is flat and flat, called flat and flat feet); Third, it is flat and flat (flat from the beginning, the last word is flat, called flat feet); Fourth, it is flat and flat (it starts and closes, and the last word is flat and feet, which constitutes the four basic formats of the seven-character rhyme.