Ancient poems can be divided into modern poems and ancient poems (ancient style), and modern poems can be divided into metrical poems (metrical poems [five-character metrical poems, seven-character metrical poems], quatrains [five-character quatrains, seven-character quatrains]), words and songs; New poems include free poems (vernacular poems produced since the May 4th Movement), prose poems (lyric poems expressed in prose) and folk songs (poems circulated by the people and created collectively).
Ancient body and near body:
Classical poetry is written in the style of ancient poetry. In the eyes of the Tang people, from the Book of Songs to Yu Xin in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, they are all ancient poems. Therefore, there is no certain standard to follow the ancient poetic style. However, the ancient poems written by poets are consistent in one thing, that is, they are not bound by the rhythm of modern poetry.
A kind of metrical poem, which began to form in the early Tang Dynasty, has strict rules on the number of words, rhyme and antithesis, which is what we call modern poetry. Modern poetry is relative to classical poetry, and poets in Tang Dynasty and later wrote classical poetry. We can say that anything that is not bound by the near-body meter is an ancient poem. Classical poetry is divided into four-character poems, five-character poems and seven-character poems. Modern poetry is divided into quatrains and metrical poems.