Also known as "ancient poetry" and "ancient style", it is free in meter and antithesis, flat in tone, broad in rhyme and unlimited in length. There are four sentences, five sentences, six sentences, seven sentences and miscellaneous sentences.
Including various forms of poetry before the Tang Dynasty, Chu Ci, Yuefu poetry. Poems in ancient poetry genres such as Song, Gexing, Quotations, Qu and Ling are also ancient poems.
Second, modern poetry.
Also known as modern poetry or metrical poetry, it is a genre of Chinese poetry that emphasizes levelness, antithesis and rhyme, which was formed in the Tang Dynasty. There are strict restrictions on the number of sentences, the number of words, and even the words and rhymes. There are quatrains and metrical poems.
Modern poetry, also called modern poetry, is a metrical poem. The so-called modern poetry is relative to ancient poetry. In fact, "style" and "rhyme" are different. Gewu refers to ancient poetry with lofty spirit, but later generations directly call it "rhyme poetry"
Extended data
Modern poetry is a kind of metrical poetry, which began to sprout in Qi and Liang Dynasties and was formally formed in the early Tang Dynasty. Characterized in that:
1, fixed number of words. Modern poetry includes metrical poems and quatrains. There are eight metrical poems and four quatrains, and the number of words is limited. There are also "three-rhyme poems", but they are rare.
There is also the so-called "parallelism". The number of sentences can be more than eight, at most 150 or 60 rhymes (more than 300 sentences), but the number of sentences is even. Every sentence in modern poetry is generally five or seven words, and six words are rare. Therefore, the fixed number of words can be said to be a universal feature of modern poetry.
2. Rhyme is very strict. This means: a poem must rhyme to the end, and there can be no rhyme changes in the middle; A poem must use rhyming words, and rhyming is not allowed; Generally, only flat rhyme is used.
3. Pay attention to leveling.
4. Pay attention to confrontation.
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