What are the forms of poetry?

Ancient poetry is divided into two parts according to genre:

Classical poetry (ancient style, ancient poetry) and metrical poetry (five or seven laws, absolute and exclusive laws, also known as new poetry).

According to the times, archaic poetry can be divided into: pre-Qin archaic poetry (The Book of Songs), Sao poetry (Li Sao), Han Yuefu (Peacock flies southeast), five-seven-character poetry (Nineteen Ancient Poems), archaic poetry written by later generations (Entering Wine), and archaic laws (except for not requiring metrical rules and broad rhymes,

New poems are divided into five-character quatrains, seven-character quatrains, five-character metrical poems, seven-character metrical poems and parallel prose according to the number of words and meter.

Extended data

He Qifang, a modern poet and literary critic in China, once said: "Poetry is the literary style that most strongly reflects social life. It is full of rich imagination and feelings, and it is often expressed in a direct lyrical way. Moreover, in the exquisite and harmonious degree, especially in the bright rhythm, its language is different from prose.

This definition summarizes several basic characteristics of poetry: first, it reflects life in a highly concentrated and general way; The second is lyrical expression, full of rich thoughts and feelings; Third, rich imagination, association and fantasy; Fourth, language has musical beauty.

It has the following four characteristics:

(1) The content of poetry is the most concentrated reflection of social life.

(2) Poetry is full of emotion and imagination.

(3) The poetic language is characterized by conciseness, image, harmonious tone and distinct rhythm.

(4) In form, poetry is not based on sentences, but on behavior, and its branches are mainly based on rhythm, not meaning.