What is the difference between ancient poetry and modern poetry?

1. Ancient style poetry

Also known as "ancient poetry" and "ancient style", it has free rhythm, informal opposition, level and oblique, broad rhymes, no limit on length, and sentences of four or five characters. , six-character, seven-character and miscellaneous characters.

Including various forms of poetry, Chu Ci, and Yuefu poems before the Tang Dynasty. Poems in ancient poetry genres such as "ge", "gexing", "yin", "qu" and "li" also belong to ancient poetry.

2. Modern-style poetry

Also known as modern-style poetry or metrical poetry, it is a Han poetry genre that pays attention to level, opposition, and rhyme. It was formed in the Tang Dynasty. There are strict restrictions on the number of sentences, words, rhythm, and rhyme. Divided into quatrains and rhymed verses.

Modern style poetry is also called modern style poetry. Modern style poetry is metrical poetry. The so-called modern style poetry is relative to ancient style poetry. In fact, "Ge poetry" is different from "Rhythm poetry". Ge poetry refers to ancient poetry with high style, but later generations directly called Rhythm poetry "Rhythm poetry".

Extended information

Modern style poetry began to sprout in the Qi and Liang Dynasties and was formally formed in the early Tang Dynasty. Its characteristics are:

1. The number of words is fixed. Modern poetry includes regular verses and quatrains. Each regular verse has eight lines and each quatrain has four lines. The number of lines is limited. There are also "trimeter poems", but they are rare.

There is also the so-called "rhyme arrangement", the number of sentences can be more than eight sentences, and up to one hundred and fifty or sixty rhymes (more than three hundred sentences), but the number of sentences is always an even number. Each line of modern poetry is generally five or seven characters, and six characters are rare. Therefore, the fixed number of words can be said to be a unique feature of modern poetry.

2. Use rhyme strictly. This means: a poem must rhyme to the end, and rhymes cannot be changed in the middle; a poem must use words with the same rhyme, and no rhymes are allowed; generally, only plain rhymes are used.

3. Pay attention to evenness.

4. Pay attention to confrontation.

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