1, the first couplet refers to the first couplet (one or two sentences) in the seven-character quatrains.
2. Couplets refer to the second couplet of seven-character quatrains (three or four pairs of sentences).
3. Neck couplet refers to the third triple of seven-character rhyme (five or six pairs of sentences).
4. The ending refers to the fourth part of the seven-character rhyme (seven or eight pairs of sentences). ?
Seven-character verse is a genre of China's traditional poetry, which belongs to the category of modern poetry. It originated from Shen Yue and other new-style poems that emphasized meter and antithesis in the period of Qi Yongming in the Southern Dynasties, further developed and stereotyped in Shen Quan and Song in the early Tang Dynasty, and matured in Du Fu's hands in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
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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.
The first characteristic of duality is that syntax should be the same. For example, the first sentence of the first couplet of One Night Abroad has no predicate, and the second sentence is relatively meaningless. The sentence pattern of the upper sentence of the couplet is "subject-predicate-object", and so is the next sentence. The neck couplet uses the same sentence pattern.
The second characteristic of duality is that you can't use the same words to oppose each other. The antithesis like "people have joys and sorrows, and the moon has ups and downs" is allowed in lyrics and songs, but never allowed in modern poetry. In fact, unless it is necessary for rhetoric, the same words must be avoided in modern poetry.
The third characteristic of duality is that parts of speech should be relative, that is, noun to noun, verb to verb, adjective to adjective, adverb to adverb, pronoun to pronoun, function word to function word.
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