From the perspective of meter, poetry can be divided into classical poetry and modern poetry. Ancient poetry is also called ancient poetry or ancient style; Modern poetry is also called modern poetry. In terms of the number of words, there are four-character poems, five-character poems and seven-character poems. After the Tang Dynasty, there were few four-character poems, so the general poetry collections were only divided into five-character poems and seven-character poems.
Ancient poetry miscellaneous body:
Miscellaneous poems, named after the different lengths of sentences in the poems, have variable numbers of words, the shortest is only one word, and the long sentences are more than nine spans, mostly three, four, five and seven words. It is characterized by its relatively free form, which is convenient for expressing thoughts and feelings freely. Any poet who wins by emotion or momentum has a great preference for miscellaneous poems.
The metrical poems in China's ancient poetry reached its peak in the middle Tang Dynasty (Du Fu was the representative poet), because its formal beauty space had been exhausted by the great poets in the Tang Dynasty, leaving only a limited space.
Therefore, China's metrical poems in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties developed into miscellaneous poems, which formed a backlash against the uniform metrical poems, which led to some rigidity in form and eventually became a systematic form of "Ci". Ci finally developed to the height of "a generation of literature" and made great achievements.