What are the literary genres of poetry

1. Ancient poetry: archaic poetry.

2. Proto-poetry. There is a strict meter, the number of lines, words, rhymes, leveling, etc. There are certain rules, it is the ancient metrical poetry, generally including metrical poems (pentameter, heptameter), stanzas (pentameter, heptameter), and platitudes (pentameter platitudes, heptameter platitudes).

3. Words: a form of poetry in rhyme, developed from pentameter, heptameter or folk ballads, started in the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty. The length of the sentences varies.

4, song: composition: palace (tune), song, title.

Poetry, refers to the traditional Chinese Han poetry represented by ancient poems, proximate poems and metrical words. It is also one of the characteristics of the Chinese cultural circle. It is generally believed that poems are more suitable for "speech", while words are more suitable for "lyricism".

Poetry is a literary art that expounds the mind, while poets and lyricists need to master mature artistic skills and follow strict rhythmic requirements, using condensed language, dense chapter and verse, full of emotion and rich imagery to highly concentrated expression of social life and the world of human spirit.

Chinese poetry originated in the pre-Qin Dynasty and flourished in the Tang Dynasty. Chinese words originated in the Sui and Tang dynasties and became popular in the Song dynasty. Chinese poetry originated from the folk, in fact, it is a kind of grassroots literature. In the 21st century China, poetry is still favored by the general public.