Poetry can be classified according to what points, such as (), () and ().

Poetry can be divided into classical poetry and modern poetry according to rhythm. Classical poetry and modern poetry are concepts formed in the Tang Dynasty, which are divided from the perspective of poetic rhythm.

According to the content, it can be divided into narrative poems, lyric poems, farewell poems, frontier poems, pastoral poems, nostalgic poems, mourning poems and allegorical poems.

There are strict rules on the number of words, sentences and even words and rhymes, which can be divided into quatrains and metrical poems.