The elegant and domineering seven-character quatrain is "The Original Intention of Poetry". "The Original Intention of Poetry" The sleepwalking prodigal can hum, and the common people in the mountains are also crazy. Since ancient times, poetry has been an expression of one's thoughts, so how could it be stained by the world of mortals? The seven-character quatrain is a genre of traditional Han poetry, referred to as Qijue, and belongs to the category of modern poetry. This poem has four lines, each line has seven words, and has strict metrical requirements in terms of rhyme and adhesion.
Poetic Rhythm
Seven-character quatrains are modern poetry with strict metrical requirements. The first is the fixed length. The whole poem has four sentences, each sentence has seven characters, totaling twenty-eight characters. Secondly, the rhyme is strict, which means that it usually only rhymes with flat tones and cannot rhyme. We also need to pay attention to the balance and obliqueness, that is, it is required to comply with the oblique and oblique laws, that is, under normal circumstances, two syllables (two characters) are used as one foot, and the oblique and oblique arrangements are alternately arranged.
Based on the two characters of the first sentence, the seven-character quatrains are divided into two categories: the flat-qi style and the flat-qi style. Among them, there are two types of flat-rising styles: first, flat-rising and flat-finishing, with the first sentence rhyming; second, flat-rising and flat-finishing, with the first sentence not rhyming. There are two types of ziqi style: 1. ziqi qifa, the first sentence rhymes; 2. ziqi qiqifa, the first sentence does not rhyme.
According to the rules of Ping and Zhi, there are four standard sentence patterns for seven character quatrains: Ping Ping Zhi Zhi Zhi Ping Ping Qi Ping Fa. The last two characters are Ping Ping, which is called Ping Ping Jiao. Ping Ping Zhi Zhi Ping Ping Qi Qi. Fa, the last two characters are Pingping, which is called Pingping foot. Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping Qi Qi, the last two characters are Ping Ping, which is called Ping Ping Jiao.