What does modern poetry include and what is it?

Modern poetry, also known as modern poetry and metrical poetry, is a genre that pays attention to metrical, antithesis and rhyme in Chinese poetry. Modern poetry includes quatrains and metrical poems.

Quatrains, also known as truncated sentences, broken sentences, short sentences and quatrains, belong to a form of modern poetry. 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.

Examples of five-character quatrains: Crossing the Han River in Song Dynasty, Wang Zhihuan's Stay at the Heron, Wang Wei's Chai Lu, Wang Wei's Zhuliguan, Wang Wei's Farewell, Du Fu's Eight Arrays, Du Fu's two quatrains, Liu Changqing's Farewell Master, etc.

Examples of seven-character quatrains are: Looking at Tianmen Mountain by Li Bai, Looking at Lushan Waterfall by Li Bai, Two Poems of Biedong by Gao Shi, Two Ambassadors of Anxi by Wang Wei, Seven Poems of Joining the Army by Wang Changling and Two Poems of Liangzhou by Wang Zhihuan.

Rhyme is a genre of China's traditional poetry, which belongs to the category of modern poetry and is named because of its strict metrical requirements. Its common types are five-character poems and seven-character poems.

(1) The number of sentences is fixed: a metrical poem usually has eight sentences each, and more than eight sentences are called excluded or long.

(2) Rhyme is strict: Rhyme is usually flat rhyme and must be rhymed according to the words in the rhyme book. Rhyme also requires the whole poem to rhyme, that is, the ending rhymes, and the middle rhyme is not allowed.

(3) Pay attention to levelness: The sentence pattern of each sentence and the levelness of the word in the rhyme have provisions: pay attention to adhesion and alignment.

(4) Require antithesis: Each of the four sections has a specific name. The first couplet is called the first couplet, the second couplet is called the platoon couplet, the third couplet is called the neck couplet and the fourth couplet is called the tail couplet. The upper and lower sentences of every metrical poem are antithetical sentences, and the first couplet and the last couplet can be right or wrong.