"Song of the Yangtze River" is the theme song of the large-scale TV documentary "Talk about the Yangtze River" that was popular throughout China in the 1980s.
"Song of the Yangtze River" belongs to modern poetry. It is a lyric poem according to the expression of the content of the work, and a metrical poem according to the phonological rhythm and structural form of the language of the work.
You came from the snow-capped mountains,
The spring tide is your style.
You run towards the East China Sea,
The stormy waves are your spirit.
Four sentences, 2 and 4 of which rhyme.
Quatrains are modern poetry, with four lines each. Five-character poems are referred to as Wujue, and seven-character poems are referred to as Qijue.
Attachment: Classification
Ancient Poetry
1. Poetry can be divided into two categories: ancient style poetry and modern style poetry.
(1) Ancient style poetry: including ancient poetry (poems before the Tang Dynasty), Chu Ci, and Yuefu poetry
(2) Modern style poetry: Modern style poetry, which is opposite to ancient style poetry, is also called modern style poetry. A kind of metrical poetry formed in the Tang Dynasty, which is divided into two types, one is called "quatrains" and the other is called "rhymed poetry"
(3) Ci
(4) Qu
2. Classified by content: it can be divided into narrative poetry, lyric poetry, farewell poetry, frontier poetry, landscape pastoral poetry, nostalgic poetry (epic poem), poetry about things, mourning poetry, and allegorical poetry.
Modern Poetry
1. Narrative poetry and lyric poetry. This is divided according to the expression of the content of the work
2. Metrical poetry, free verse and prose poetry. This is classified according to the phonological rhythm and structural form of the work's language.