Modern poetry is also called "modern poetry", which is the name of poetic style. The generic terms of metrical poems and quatrains formed in the Tang Dynasty are relative to classical poems. There are strict rules on the number of sentences, the number of words, and even the words and rhymes. The word "Modern Poetry" was popular among non-ethnic minorities in China in the Ming Dynasty.
The rhythm of modern poetry: Chinese is a language with music, and poetry and music are inseparable. Chinese has four tones, and four tones are equal. The rhythm of metrical poems is the application of four tones in Chinese.
Metric poems refer to ancient poems after the Tang Dynasty, which are divided into quatrains and metrical poems, and quatrains are divided into (five quatrains) and (seven quatrains).
Characteristics of metrical poems: the sentences must be even, such as four, eight, twelve and sixteen sentences. Pay attention to three aspects: leveling, rhyming and antithesis. The leveling also includes adhering to good and evil, avoiding loneliness and leveling, and avoiding three-level tones.
Following the Book of Songs, in the 4th century BC, a new style of poetry similar to that of Qin appeared in the State of Chu, called Songs of the Chu, and its founder was Qu Yuan.
Later, the Han people compiled the works written by Qu Yuan, Song Yu and others into a book called Songs of the South. The Songs of Chu broke through four sentences in the Book of Songs and developed into five-character sentences and seven-character sentences, that is, even sentences (four words in a sentence) were changed into odd sentences (five words in a sentence and seven words in a sentence), which not only better expressed thoughts and feelings, but also made the rhythm and rhythm more musical.
In the Han Dynasty, Yuefu Poetry, a poem sung with music, appeared. There are four words, five words and miscellaneous words in language, but most of them are five words. Later, the literati headed by Cao Cao and his son and Tao Yuanming developed five-character poems. At the same time, seven-character poems have also developed greatly.