Metric poetry, also known as modern poetry, is a kind of ancient poetry in China and a poetic style formed after the Tang Dynasty, which is mainly divided into quatrains and metrical poems. According to the number of words in each sentence, it can be divided into five words and seven words. Style and sentence patterns have certain norms, phonology has certain laws, and the changes in use also need to abide by certain laws.
The common forms of China's classical metrical poems are quatrains and metrical poems with five words and seven sentences, which are the so-called modern poems. Words and songs can also be called metrical poems. This ancient and traditional poetic style has a strict structure, and there are certain restrictions on the number of words, lines, even tones or accents and rhymes.