Rhyming format
From the format of rhyme foot itself, it can be divided into interval rhyme and parallelism rhyme.
This is actually very easy to understand. Every rhyme is our most common even rhyme. For example:
The mountain smoke curled up and gradually filled the sky.
Xing Han vaguely saw that he thought Lin was inferior.
The singular sentences here don't rhyme, and the even sentences rhyme, which rhymes every other sentence. And every rhyme rhymes, such as Du Fu's two "For Tao":
On March 3rd, Spring Festival, the weather was fresh, and many beautiful people gathered in Qujiang, Chang 'an.
Dignified attitude, lofty and quiet personality, plump skin, thin and moderate figure.
Embroidered gold and silver silk unicorn in late spring.
……
Because poetry gradually became an independent chanting style without music, without the additional tuning function of music, it was necessary to break sentences when reciting, so later poems gradually did not need rhyme. When we read a poem, if it doesn't rhyme, it proves that this sentence is not finished, and there are still half sentences below. Then the next even rhyme indicates the end of a sentence or a poem.
Because there is no punctuation system in classical Chinese, rhyming is actually an important basis for ancient people to read aloud.
Later, it was stipulated that there were only two rhyming formats for near-physical rhythm poems. One is the flat (flat) rhyme format, that is, rhyme throughout. This is the format of the above five wonders. The other is an equal rhyming format, that is, the first couplet adopts rhyming format, and the following poems adopt alternating rhyming format. To put it simply, except the first sentence, other singular sentences don't rhyme. Such as Li Qiao's Mid-Autumn Moon:
Round and cold, all the words are the same.
Know that thousands of miles away, there is no rain and no wind?
Later poems basically have only these two rhyming formats. The only difference is whether the first sentence rhymes, so the rhyming format is abandoned. Not only poems, epigrams, Sanqu, etc. , but no longer use rhymes for reading.
So are there any modern rhyming works? Yes, it sometimes exists in modern lyrics. This is because the attachment of music will make Chinese characters out of their own tone, which can be long or short, and the sense of rhythm is also attached to music. Ignoring the intrinsic musicality of Chinese characters. It doesn't matter if there is rhyme at this time. So this format occasionally appears in lyrics, but it is also very rare. After all, many lyricists still have to read the lyrics fluently when writing.
According to different poetic forms, the rules of rhyme are different.
Here is a general talk about modern poetry, ancient poetry and epigrams.
The Rhythm of Modern Poetry
Modern poetry is an ancient poem that abides by the law of leveling. Rhyme has its own rules, because the main categories of modern poetry are rhyme (four sentences) and rhyme (eight sentences). On the premise of rhyme, a quatrain is at most three rhyming words (the third sentence doesn't rhyme), and a metrical poem is at most five rhyming words (except the first sentence), so there is basically no shortage of rhyming words. Therefore, metrical poems are not allowed to be connected with adjacent rhymes.
Adjacent rhymes are not allowed to pass.
What is the adjacent rhyme? That is to say, today we may sound that the vowels of some words are similar and sound ok, but in fact these two words may belong to different rhymes.
For example, the words "heart" and "truth" may rhyme according to today's Mandarin if they are used as rhymes, but "heart" belongs to the "twelve invasions" part of Pingshui rhyme and "truth" belongs to the "eleven truths" part of Pingshui rhyme. These are two adjacent rhymes. Their rhymes are adjacent and their pronunciation is similar. However, if you write a poem close to your body with a level rhyme, you will be divorced from the law. This is not allowed.
However, if a new rhyme is used, these two words will be merged into the "Jiuwen" department, which does not belong to the adjacent rhyme, but belongs to a rhyme department. Therefore, if we write metrical poems with horizontal rhyme, these two words cannot rhyme, but when we write metrical poems with new rhyme, these two words can rhyme again.
It can only rhyme with the word peace.
This is a special law of physical metrical poetry, which has nothing to do with grammar and temperament. Probably when the poets in the Tang Dynasty created the modern poetry format, they thought that the flat voice was beneficial to singing, and the state of shaking their heads expressed a soothing and broad-minded artistic conception, so they made this provision.
This is the rule. It has existed and will continue to exist, which does not mean that a poem with rhyme is not good, and a poem with rhyme is not a modern poem. If we want to take part in this game, we must abide by this rule. Our feelings are not only reflected in modern poetry, like Jiang Xue of Liu Zongyuan:
There are no birds flying over those mountains, and there are no traces of people in those paths.
A boat on the river, a fisherman wearing his webworm moth; Fishing alone is not afraid of snow and ice.
This is a rhyming poem, not a modern poem, but through the modern poems, except Wang Zhihuan's In the Heron House, no other works can match Jiang Xue.
Can't rhyme
There are always four quatrains, and there is no such problem. The problem is the rhythm and arrangement in modern poetry. A metrical poem has four verses and eight sentences. You can't have one rhyme in the first two verses and another rhyme in the last two. Rhyme is a long metrical poem, even hundreds of sentences, which can only be used in one rhyme. Otherwise, it is divorced from the law and no longer belongs to the category of near-material law poetry.
The works produced by the method are basically ancient poems.