China's ancient poems are generally divided into ancient poems and modern poems. What is modern poetry?

Modern poetry, also known as modern poetry or metrical poetry, is a genre of Chinese poetry that emphasizes fairness, antithesis and rhyme. In order to distinguish it from classical poetry, it has the name of modern style. Refers to the metrical poem style formed in the Tang Dynasty. Modern poetry has strict restrictions on the number, number of words, fluency and rhyme of sentences. Modern poetry is the main style of poetry after the Tang Dynasty. Famous representative poets are Li Bai, Du Fu, Li Shangyin and Lu You. It occupies an important position in the history of China's poetry.

Modern poetry is also called "modern poetry". Poetic style name. The generic terms of metrical poems and quatrains formed in the Tang Dynasty are relative to classical poems. There are strict rules on the number of sentences, the number of words, and even the words and rhymes. The word "modern poetry" was very popular in China in the Ming Dynasty. For example, Dong Qichang's "Preface to Yuan Boying's Poems" in the Ming Dynasty said: "This autumn, Boying (Yuan Shu, son of Yuan Keli) sent a modern poem, which was a preface to Suiyang.

kind

Viewpoint 1: Modern poetry includes quatrains (five words and four sentences, seven words and four sentences), metrical poems (five words and eight sentences, seven words and eight sentences) and metrical poems (more than ten sentences), which are based on the meter of metrical poems. The meter of quatrains is half a poem. Parallelism is an extension of metrical poetry.

Viewpoint 2: Modern poetry includes quatrains (four quatrains for each quatrain, five quatrains abbreviated as five quatrains and seven quatrains abbreviated as seven quatrains). ), metrical poems (generally eight sentences each, five words are abbreviated as five laws, seven words are abbreviated as seven laws, and more than eight sentences are called long laws or excluded laws. )。

trait

The most basic meter includes: number of words, number of sentences, level tone, rhyme, antithesis (antithesis is not necessary for quatrains), and there are three main points:

1, each sentence should be flush, the two sentences connected together should be flush, and the sentences connected together should also be flush, that is, "the sentences are flush, they are relative when connected, and they are glued together";

2. Except for the first pair and the second pair, the couplets in the middle must be couplets;

3. Generally speaking, rhyme must rhyme with the same level tone.