Influenced by Du Fu and Han Yu, Du Mu's ancient poems are good at integrating narrative, discussion and lyricism, with rigorous style and thin sentence patterns, such as Poems of Feeling for the Heart, Poems of Du Qiuniang, Poems of Zhang, Lonely Village in the County, Books in the Snow, and Autumn Sending to Hebei. Among them, prose narrative and discussion are common. Du Mu's ancient poems were influenced by Han Yu. But sometimes he will use metaphor and image language to discuss, full of lyricism. Du Mu's ancient poems often have a different realm, simple and unpretentious, heroic and vigorous, such as "Chizhou bid farewell to Meng Chi's ancestors". In the late Tang Dynasty, the style of poetry was modest and powerless, mostly metrical poems and quatrains. Few people can write long poems. Du Mu's ancient poems were also outstanding in the middle and late Tang Dynasty. His poems, together with excellent poems known as "handsome", constitute three main aspects of his poetry creation.
There are a considerable number of Du Mu's regular poems, among which there are more than 100 Collected Works of Fan Chuan, and about 167 except the Collected Works of Fan Chuan and other collections. His regular poems occupy an important position in all his poems, and his artistic achievements are also very high, especially the seven laws. The style of Du Mu's poems is handsome, cold, vigorous and heroic, which is the most prominent in his regular poems.
Du Mu's seven unique achievements are the highest, with beautiful artistic conception, amazing comments and meaningful charm. Poems on history, amazing ideas, high historical knowledge. Du Mu's scenery is lyrical and poetic, with beautiful artistic conception and meaningful charm, which is beyond the seven wonders of the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Du Mu is good at capturing the beautiful images of natural scenery, describing them with quatrains, subtle and refined, and blending scenes. In just four sentences, he wrote a complete and beautiful scene, just like a painting, such as Jiang Nanchun's quatrains.