1, word limit: each poem has a fixed number of words, mostly 4 or 5 words.
2. Rhythm requirements: Every poem must have a rhyme, which corresponds to the rhyme of the preceding and following sentences, showing the overall beauty of rhythm.
3. Language expression requirements: classical poetry pays attention to the creation of artistic conception and images, and often adopts rhetorical devices such as metaphor, parallelism and antithesis, as well as symbolic images and metaphors.
4. Emotional expression requirements: Classical poetry usually expresses the author's profound feelings, thoughts and experiences, emphasizes humanistic feelings and aesthetic taste, and has certain philosophical and cultural connotations.
In a word, classical poetry has unique requirements and laws in form, expression and emotion, aiming at showing high artistic value and cultural accumulation.
The difference between ancient poetry and modern poetry
1. Language form: classical poetry uses ancient Chinese, including rhythm, tone, font and other features; Modern poetry, on the other hand, uses modern Chinese and does not emphasize rhythm and tone.
2. Rhythm: Classical poetry usually adopts five-character or seven-character quatrains, five-character rhymes, seven-character rhymes and other classical rhymes; However, modern poetry has no fixed rhythm and meter.
3. Means of expression: classical poetry pays attention to the expression of cultural and historical traditions, and its contents are mostly about chanting history, recalling the past, expressing feelings, and writing scenes. Modern poetry, on the other hand, is more free and can express various themes and emotions.
Generally speaking, there are differences between ancient poetry and modern poetry in language form, rhythm and expression, which reflect the different characteristics of literary styles in different periods.