In contrast, it is ancient poetry. Poems before the Tang Dynasty are basically ancient poems, and there are many ancient poems after the Tang Dynasty.
According to the number of words, there are three words, four words, five words (five ancient) and seven words (seven ancient), and more than seven words are called miscellaneous words. Chuci, or Sao, also belongs to ancient poetry.
Rhyme, antithesis and levelness in classical poetry are not strict-because these are the basic characteristics of modern poetry, that is, metrical poetry.
There is another category of classical poetry, Yuefu, which is composed of poems before the Han Dynasty. After the Han dynasty, poetry and music were separated, and the tunes may be lost, but the format and name of Yuefu were preserved, usually appearing as specific and fixed themes. The genre of these topics includes: songs, songs, poems and so on. Among them, when the songs were divided into Long song (five words) and short songs (four words), Cao Cao was good at writing Yuefu.
In the Tang Dynasty, Li Bai was particularly good at classical style and Yuefu, and Du Fu wrote many Yuefu and Guti.