If it is an ancient poem, it is not necessary. There are many formats for words. You can leave two spaces and break the upper and lower lines; you can also write the upper and lower lines together without breaking the line, but you must leave two spaces at the beginning of each line; You can also follow the rhythm of the words and wrap each sentence in a new line without using spaces.
Poem lines
(1) A line of poetry is not necessarily a complete sentence.
The first letter of each line of English poetry is capitalized, but a line of poetry may not necessarily be a complete sentence or express a complete meaning.
Sometimes, a line of poetry is just one sentence, and sometimes it takes two lines or even many lines to form a complete sentence. The former is called end-stopped line, and the latter is called run-on line. (cross-line sentence). This is one of the biggest differences between English poetry and Chinese poetry. Chinese poetry expresses a complete meaning in one line.
(2) The length of a line of poetry is calculated by the number of steps:
The length range of an English line of poetry is generally one foot - pentameter. There are also lines in six, seven and eight meter, but not many. Most of them are poems in tetrameter and pentameter.
(Special terms for various long and short lines of poetry: monometer: monometer dimeter: dimeter trimeter: trimeter fourmeter: tetrameter pentameter: pentameter hexameter : hexameter Heptameter: heptameter Octameter: octameter.)
When analyzing the rhythm of a poem, it is necessary to consider not only the basic meter type of the poem, but also the rhythm of the poem. The number of steps in the line of poetry.
Extended information:
Poetry is a unique style of writing in Chinese, with a special format and rhythm. Poetry can be divided into two categories: ancient style poetry and modern style poetry. Ancient style poetry and modern style poetry are concepts formed in the Tang Dynasty, and are divided from the perspective of the rhythm of poetry.
According to content, it can be divided into narrative poems, lyric poems, farewell poems, frontier poems, landscape pastoral poems, nostalgic poems (epic poems), mourning poems, poems chanting objects, military poems, etc. Ancient style poems include "The Book of Songs", "Chu Ci", "Yuefu", "Han Fu", "Folk Songs of the Southern and Northern Dynasties", etc. Modern poetry generally consists of quatrains, rhymed verses, and arranged rhymes (long rhymes).