Ancient poetry can be divided into: ① ancient poetry, including ancient poetry (poems before Tang Dynasty), songs of Chu and Yuefu poems. Pay attention to the styles of ancient poetry such as Song, Song Xing, Quotations, Qu and Ling, which also belong to ancient poetry. Classical poetry does not talk about antithesis and rhymes freely. The development track of classical poetry: The Book of Songs → Chu Ci → Han Fu → Han Yuefu → Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties Folk Songs → Jian 'an Poetry → Tao Poetry and other literati five-character poems → Tang Dynasty Ancient Style New Yuefu. Generally, there are three characters, four characters, five characters, six characters and seven characters. And they don't pay attention to metrical patterns such as antithesis and leveling, and they use rhyme more freely.
② Modern poetry, including metrical poems and quatrains. Rhymes and quatrains were slowly formed in the Tang Dynasty. Wandering Son is a six-character poem in classical poetry.