What's the difference between ancient poems, regular poems and quatrains?

Ancient poetry is the general name of China's ancient poetry;

Rhyme is a popular genre in Chinese poetry in Tang Dynasty, which belongs to modern poetry and is named because of its strict metrical requirements. The common types are five laws and seven laws, and there are generally a few words to say.

Quatrains, also called truncated sentences, broken sentences and quatrains, are short and pithy;

Ancient poetry is the general name of China's ancient poetry, which refers to 1840 China's poems before the Opium War. From the perspective of meter, ancient poetry can be divided into ancient poetry and modern poetry. Taking the Tang Dynasty as the boundary, the previous poems were all ancient poems, and later, the ancient poems gradually declined and died out. Ancient poetry is also called ancient poetry or ancient style; Modern poetry is also called modern poetry. From the Book of Songs to Yu Xin in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, they are all ancient poems, but the poems after the Tang Dynasty are not necessarily modern poems, but they are distinguished according to rhyme. Most of the classical poems of the Han nationality have neat sentences except words and songs. For example, the Book of Songs is basically four words, Chu Ci is generally six words plus the word "Xi", and classical poetry and modern poetry are mostly five or seven words. For example: The Book of Songs Guan Ju.

Guan Guan sui dove,

In Hezhou.

My beautiful lady,

A gentleman would like to marry a good girl.

Rhyme is a popular genre in Chinese poetry in Tang Dynasty, which belongs to modern poetry and is named because of its strict metrical requirements. The common types are five laws and seven laws, and there are generally a few words to say. Rhyme is the precious wealth of Chinese literature, which is of great significance. Metric poems originated from Shen Yue's new style poems which paid attention to meter and duality in the Qi Yong period of the Southern Dynasty, and began to appear in the early Tang Dynasty. During the Wu and Zhou Dynasties, Shen Quanqi and Song created the Narrow Seven Laws, which matured in the middle and late Tang Dynasty. Rhyme requires the unity of the number of words in the poem, and each poem is five words and seven sentences, referred to as five laws and seven laws for short. The usual metrical poems stipulate 8 sentences each. More than 8 sentences, that is, 10 sentences, are called exclusive laws or long laws. Usually eight sentences are completed, and every two sentences form a couplet, which is counted as a quadruple. It is customary to call the first couplet a title couplet, the second a antithetical sentence, the third a neck couplet and the fourth a sentence ending couplet. The upper and lower sentences of two or three couplets (i.e. antithesis and necklace) of each song are used to antithesis. Except for the first pair and the second pair, the couplet in the middle must be a couplet. Rhyme requires the whole poem to rhyme, and rhyme is usually balanced; The second, fourth, sixth and eighth sentences rhyme, and the first sentence can be taken or not. Allow the rhyme in a broad sense to lose its adhesion, and not in a narrow sense. There are two types: "Qi Qi" and "Pingqi". In addition, the metrical requirements of metrical poems also apply to quatrains.

Generalized metrical poems are very inclusive, allowing irregularities and three ends to exist.

Such as the Yellow Crane Tower in Cui Hao (typical representative)

In the past, the yellow crane carried saints to heaven, but now only the yellow crane tower is left.

The yellow crane never revisited earth, there have been no long white clouds for thousands of years.

Every tree in Hanyang has become clear due to sunlight, and Nautilus Island is covered with sweet grass.

But I looked at my hometown, and the twilight was getting thicker, and the mist of sadness was filled on the river waves. "

Quatrains, also called truncated sentences, broken sentences and quatrains, are short and pithy. It is a popular genre of Chinese poetry in the Tang Dynasty and belongs to a form of modern poetry. The word quatrains first appeared in the Qi and Liang Dynasties in the Southern Dynasties. There are four five-character and four-sentence poems in Chen's Poem on Yutai. I don't know the author's name, and the topic is "Ancient Jueju". At this time, quatrains refer to small poems with five words, four sentences and two rhymes, and do not require balance and harmony. Jue means "cut off", and the ancients used four poems with four quatrains to complete an ideological concept. There are two types of quatrains: quatrains and archaic styles. Rhythm only needs to be refined after the rise of rhythmic poetry. Ancient times existed long before the appearance of metrical poems.

Seven-syllable/seven-syllable quatrain

Release Baidicheng in advance? Tang Libai

Early in the morning, I bid farewell to Jiangling city, which is high into the sky, thousands of miles away, and the boat is only one day away.

The cries of apes on both sides of the strait are still unconsciously crowing in their ears, and the canoe has passed the heavy green hills.

Six-character quatrains

Pastoral music Tang Wangwei

Hearts also contain fresh rain overnight, green willows and a touch of spring smoke.

The children at home have not been driven away, and the oriole singing the song of idleness is still sleeping.

Four lines and five words of ancient poetry

Don Wang Zhihuan at the Heron Villa.

The sun sets slowly near the western hills, and the Yellow River flows into the East China Sea.

By going up one flight of stairs, look further.