Metric poetry is extremely strict in temperament. Metric poems include rhyming and leveling, in which leveling is the most important. As Chairman Mao said, "It's not standard to emphasize flat and even tones because of metrical poems." (Letter to Comrade Chen Yi)
Metric poems are divided into quatrains and metrical poems, both of which are divided into five words and seven words, and metrical poems also have lines. The view that quatrains are a branch of metrical poems should be said to be incorrect. The quatrains came into being before the metrical poems, and the metrical poems were not fully finalized when they came into being, so there are still ancient quatrains that are illegal, such as the bright line at the foot of my bed.
It is necessary for everyone to understand the definite words and sentences of metrical poems as a whole. It is worth mentioning that the two couplets in the middle of metrical poems must be opposite. In terms of rhyme, metrical poems are mostly based on flat tones, and the first sentence may or may not rhyme, while other single sentences pay attention to flat tones at the end, which must be opposite to the flat tones in the rhyme. So the most difficult thing should be the plain words in the sentence.
Here, let's briefly talk about the creative rules of metrical poems. On the creation of metrical poems, Mr. Wang Yongyi composed a ballad for reference:
The meter is not difficult to remember, 246 is very clear. The first sentence is even, or even.
The upper and lower sentences should be correct, and adjacent sentences should be glued together.
Seven sections are repeated, and seven methods are complete. Double-ended flat, single-ended silent.
It takes seven words to get rid of two words, and five words cost nothing. How do you know the style of beginning and ending? The first sentence is final.
It is not difficult to remember the meter of modern poetry, and the level of the word 246 must be consistent in every sentence. The word 246 in the first sentence should be flat or flat. The level of the word 246 in the previous sentence should be opposite to that of the word 246 in the next sentence. Adjacent sentences are the last three words of each sentence, and should be prevented from being completely flat or full of ambiguity. The pace of quatrains is determined, and when repeated, it becomes the metrical form of metrical poems. The last word of two sentences in metrical poems is flat and even, and the last word of a single sentence is mostly ambiguous. The meter of the seven-character poem is to remove the first two words. Note that the fourth word should be the second word at this time, which becomes the meter of the five-character poem.