Poetry knowledge
1, ancient poetry
Also known as "ancient poetry" and "ancient style", it is free in meter and antithesis, flat in tone, broad in rhyme and unlimited in length. There are four sentences, five sentences, six sentences, seven sentences and miscellaneous sentences.
Including various forms of poetry before the Tang Dynasty, Chu Ci, Yuefu poetry. Poems in ancient poetry genres such as Song, Gexing, Quotations, Qu and Ling are also ancient poems.
2. Modern poetry
Also known as modern poetry or metrical poetry, it is a genre of Chinese poetry that emphasizes levelness, antithesis and rhyme, which was formed in the Tang Dynasty. There are strict restrictions on the number of sentences, the number of words, and even the words and rhymes. There are quatrains and metrical poems.
3. quatrains
That is, "a unique poem." Also known as "broken sentences" and "broken sentences". Poetic style name. Cut, break, absolutely, all have the meaning of shortcut, so it is named because there are only four sentences. It is mainly composed of five words and seven words, referred to as five absolutely and seven absolutely. There are six quatrains. Passers-by in the Tang Dynasty clung to their bodies and had certain requirements for leveling and rhyming.
Some people say that this poem is made by intercepting half of the metrical poem. But before the formation of regular poems in the Tang Dynasty, there were quatrains, which rhymed and were more free. For example, there is an ancient quatrain in "A New Ode to Yutai", which is used by later generations to distinguish it from modern quatrains.
Step 4 rhyme
Poetic style name. A modern poem. Strict rules, hence the name. Originated in the Southern and Northern Dynasties and matured in the early Tang Dynasty.
The two leagues in the middle must fight each other. The second, fourth, sixth and eighth sentences rhyme, and the first sentence can be played or not, usually in a flat voice. Divided into five words and seven languages, referred to as the five laws and seven laws. Occasionally, there are six methods. If each song has more than ten sentences, it is the law of exclusivity.
In a metrical poem, whenever two sentences coincide, it is called "couplet". The first couplet (one or two sentences) of the five laws and seven laws is called the first couplet, the second couplet (three or four sentences) is called the couplet, the third couplet (five or six sentences) is called the neck couplet, and the fourth couplet (seven or eight sentences) is called the tail couplet. The first sentence of each couplet is called "antithesis" and the next sentence is called "antithesis".
5. Four-character poems
Poetic style name. Every sentence in the whole article is four words or mainly four sentences. It is the earliest poetic style in China's ancient poetry. Poems before the Spring and Autumn Period, such as The Book of Songs, are mostly four words. After the Han Dynasty, the style changed slightly. Since the Southern Song and Qi Dynasties, there have been fewer and fewer authors.