Five-character quatrains: each song has four lines, each with five words. For example, Wang Zhihuan's In the Lodge of Herons.
Seven-character quatrains: each song has four lines, each with seven words. For example, Li Bai's Silent Night Thinking.
Five-character rhyme: each poem has eight lines, each with five words. Every two scenes are linked together, in a quadruple, divided into the first ring, the juxtaposition ring, the neck ring and the tail ring. For example, Du Fu's Spring Hope.
Seven-character verse: each poem has eight lines, each with seven words. Every two scenes are linked together, in a quadruple, divided into the first ring, the juxtaposition ring, the neck ring and the tail ring. For example, Wang Zhihuan's Liangzhou Ci.
Parallelism or long law: A poem with more than eight lines is called parallelism or long law. For example, Bai Juyi's Song of Eternal Sorrow.
Classical poetry: Classical poetry is not restricted by metrical rules, has no fixed format, and can be freely played. For example, most of the poems in The Book of Songs are ancient poems.
Ci: Ci is a new poetic style, which originated in the Tang Dynasty and prevailed in the Song Dynasty. The number of words, sentences and word formats are relatively free, but there are usually fixed aphorisms and rhythms. For example, Su Shi's Jiang Chengzi Mao Yi's Dream on the 20th day of the first month.