One is the poetic form: 1, ancient poetry and modern poetry; Among them, ancient poetry mainly refers to ancient poetry before the Tang Dynasty, such as ancient style, lyrics, Yuefu and so on. , but most of them have no fixed form and are relatively free; Modern poetry mainly refers to poems with relatively fixed metrical patterns and strict phonological requirements formed after Sui and Tang Dynasties, such as metrical poems and quatrains, among which metrical patterns of five words, seven words or longer are divided according to their length. 2. Modern poetry has produced free verse after the popularization of vernacular Chinese, which is not easy to distinguish. They are all free to play and do whatever they want, but some pay more attention to phonology and form. More famous, such as misty poetry.
The second division is based on the content of poems, regardless of the time and year of creation: farewell poems, homesick poems, boarding poems, pastoral poems, epics and so on. And some of them are very detailed and cannot be explained one by one.