Even if this definition is used in today's messy contemporary poetry, it must also abide by this rule. You can write short sentences that don't rhyme at will, but no matter how beautiful and rare your work is, it can't be called poetry. The difference between modern poetry and ancient poetry lies in the complete betrayal of meter, and then the abandonment of meter does not mean that rhyme can be abandoned. Poetry is concise, rhythmic and suitable for chanting. It's not necessarily poetry that rhymes, but poetry must rhyme. Ancient poems are divided into ancient poems and epigrams. Ancient poetry is divided into modern poetry and ancient poetry.
Modern poetry should not only abide by the level tone, but also have stricter requirements for rhyme. In order to balance the rhyme, it must rhyme to the end, not the adjacent rhyme. The difference between archaic poems and epigrams that don't follow the rules of Pingwa Ci lies in the solidification of Pingwa Ci. The format of classical poems is relatively free, but they all rhyme. Compared with modern poems, ancient poems and epigrams have looser rhymes, which can even out even words and semi-rhyme. However, it must rhyme.
Why does it have to rhyme? Is it a song written by literati from folk customs, with a sense of rhythm and rhyme? Poetry? . And the earliest function of rhyme is to divide? Reading sentences tells us when to break sentences. For example, when we read a rhyming word, we will know that this is the end of a sentence, which corresponds to the position of the last rhyme. Punctuation didn't appear in the invasion of western culture until the Republic of China, so? Read sentences? It is a very important common sense of children's enlightenment, and rhyme is the most basic way to break sentences.
Because the sense of rhythm can only be created by punctuating sentences, rhyme is also an important factor in the earliest formation of the sense of rhythm. The sense of rhythm is for singing and chanting, which is the significance of poetry as a style. Is it rhyme and sense of rhythm that determines whether a work can be called a work? Poetry? , is not written for us? Poetry? Rhyme. Only by making clear the causal relationship can we really learn to rhyme.