Song of the Yangtze River is the theme song of the Yangtze River Story, a large-scale TV documentary that swept China in 1980s.
Song of the Yangtze River belongs to modern poetry, which is a lyric poem according to the expression of its content and a metrical poem according to the rhythm and structure of its language.
You come from the snow-capped mountains,
Spring tides are your style.
You ran to the East China Sea,
The stormy waves are your spirit.
Four sentences, two or four of which rhyme.
Quatrains belong to modern poetry, with four sentences in each sentence, referred to as five words and seven words for short.
Attachment: Classification
Ancient poetry
1. According to the rhythm, poetry can be divided into two categories: ancient poetry and modern poetry.
(1) Classical poetry: including ancient poetry (poems before the Tang Dynasty), songs of Chu and Yuefu poems.
(2) Modern poetry: Compared with classical poetry, modern poetry is also called modern poetry, which is a kind of metrical poetry formed in the Tang Dynasty. There are two kinds, one is called "quatrains" and the other is called "metrical poems".
(3) Text
(4) Flexion
2. According to the content, it can be divided into narrative poems, lyric poems, farewell poems, frontier poems, pastoral poems, nostalgic poems (epic poems), mourning poems and allegorical poems.
Modern poetry
1. Narrative poems and lyric poems. This is divided according to the expression of the content of the work.
2. Metric poems, free poems and prose poems. This is classified according to the phonological meter and structural form of the language of the work.