The forms or genres of poetry are:
1. Ancient poems, including ancient poems (poems before the Tang Dynasty), songs of Chu and Yuefu poems. The poetic style of classical poetry can be divided into Yuefu, Zayan, Siyan, Wuyan and Qiyan. Poetry in ancient poetry genres such as "Song", "Song Line", "Quotations", "Qu" and "Yin" also belong to ancient poetry.
Second, modern poetry, including metrical poems and quatrains. Poetry is divided into five-character quatrains, seven-character quatrains, five-character poems and seven-character poems.
Third, words, also known as poems, long and short sentences, songs, songs, Yuefu and so on. Its characteristics: the tone has a fixed frame, the sentence has a fixed number and the word has a fixed tone. According to different words, it can be divided into long tone (9 1 word or more), middle tone (59-90 words) and short tone (58 words or less). Words can be divided into monosyllabic and disyllabic, and disyllabic is divided into two paragraphs, in which the level and number of words are equal or roughly equal, and monosyllabic is only one paragraph.
Fourth, Qu, also known as Yuefu. Yuanqu includes Sanqu and Zaju.
Five, new poetry, or vernacular poetry.