(1) rhymes:
Rhyme is a genre of China's traditional poetry, which belongs to the category of modern poetry. Named for its strict metrical requirements. Metric poems originated from Shen Yue and other new-style poems that emphasized the antithesis of metrical poems in the Southern Dynasties, and were further developed and stereotyped by Shen Quanqi and Song Wenzhi in the early Tang Dynasty, which prevailed in the Tang and Song Dynasties. Rhyme has strict rules in word, rhyme, even tone and antithesis. Its common types are five-character poems and seven-character poems.
(2) quatrains:
Quatrains, also known as truncated sentences, broken sentences, short sentences and quatrains, belong to a form of modern poetry. There are different interpretations of it, and some people think that the "half-cutting method" is convenient for singing. Quatrains are composed of four sentences, which are divided into quatrains and archaic quatrains, among which quatrains have strict metrical requirements. Common quatrains include five-character quatrains and seven-character quatrains, while six-character quatrains are rare.
The quatrains originated from the short chapters of Yuefu in the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties, and their names may come from the "couplets" written by literati in the Six Dynasties. According to the literature, there was a custom of writing poems in the banquets of literati in the Six Dynasties, and each person wrote four sentences and five words to synthesize a whole poem. If you cut off what everyone has done and write an article alone, it is called "stunt", hence the name of quatrains.
The absolutely unique concept of four sentences is naturally formed. Since the Book of Songs, most poems have taken four sentences as a paragraph. The poems in The Book of Songs are mostly four words and four sentences, which the ancients called "a chapter". During the Han and Wei Dynasties, there were very few four-sentence poems as a whole, so it is not necessary to define four-sentence poems as poetic nouns, that is to say, four-sentence poems did not become the standard. However, in a long poem, the creative method of four sentences is naturally formed. After the Jin and Song Dynasties, due to the influence of folk songs, poets liked to imitate four folk songs, and a large number of small poems with five words and four sentences appeared. After Qi and Liang Dynasties, four sentences and one sentence became the standard of poetry, and it was given the name "Jue". The "broken sentences", "short sentences" and "quatrains" in the Southern Dynasties are all used to refer to poems with five words and four sentences.