Seven-character and five-sentence poem

Poems before the Tang Dynasty are collectively referred to as ancient poetry or ancient poetry, and modern poetry or modern poetry was founded in the Tang Dynasty. There are two kinds of modern poems: metrical poems and quatrains. There are five-character metrical poems, seven-character metrical poems and metrical poems, the first two of which have eight sentences each. The so-called "speech" means that every sentence has several words.

Each song has only four quatrains, including five quatrains and seven quatrains. Seven words means seven words in each sentence, that is, two words are added before five words. With these two words, the capacity of poetry has increased, the expression has become more tortuous, the content has become richer, and of course, to some extent, it has become more difficult. Try to look at Du Mu's famous poem Qingming;

Mourning day, drizzle like tears; Pedestrians on the road want to die. Excuse me, where is the restaurant? The shepherd boy pointed to Xinghua Village.

This is a seven-character quatrain, but some people think it is not refined and change it into a five-character quatrain:

During the Qingming Festival, there are many rains, and pedestrians want to break their souls. where is the restaurant？ It refers to Xinghua Village.

Although the general meaning of the change before and after is not far different, it is obviously far less than the original in rhythm, situation, tone and voice.

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