1, from time:
Ci began in Liang, became in Tang and flourished in Song. Poetry can be traced back to The Book of Songs.
2. From the topic:
Poems can be selected freely, and words must have epigraph names.
3. From the relationship with music:
In ancient times, unhappy people were called poems, and happy people were called songs. In modern times, they are collectively called poetry.
4. In terms of form:
(1), different sentence patterns:
There are metrical poems and quatrains, seven-character poems and five-character poems. The style of metrical poems is unified, and the length of ancient poems is arbitrary.
Characters can be roughly divided into Xiao Ling (less than 58 words), Middle Tone (59-90 words) and Long Tone (more than 9 1 word, with the longest word reaching 240 words). A word, some with only one paragraph, is called monotony; Some are divided into two sections, called double tones; Some are divided into three or four sections, which are called three or four sections. Moreover, words have epigrams, words have a fixed format under the name of each epigram, and several words in each sentence have requirements.
(2) The rhyme rules of poetry are also different:
Metric poems only use flat rhymes, rhyme to the end, rhyme every other sentence, and the first sentence can be suppressed or not;
The words are flat and even, with rhyme in the middle and variable rhyme feet, but according to the rules of meter.
(3), the antithesis of poetry is also very different:
The second couplet and the third couplet of metrical poems must be antithetical, but if they are antithetical, they are much more flexible and have no unified requirements.
5. As far as language features are concerned:
The language of poetry tends to be natural and fresh, and the language of writing tends to be exquisite and gorgeous.
Poetry is a typical language art, while ci is a typical beautiful language art.
6. From the aspects of style and artistic conception:
Poetry is fascinating. The emotional expression of poetry tends to be solemn; The emotional expression of words is often charming.