What are the eight types of ancient poetry?

1. Poetry can be divided into two categories: classical poetry and modern poetry. Classical poetry and modern poetry are concepts formed in the Tang Dynasty, which are divided from the perspective of poetic rhythm.

Second, according to the content, it can be divided into narrative poems, lyric poems, farewell poems, frontier poems, pastoral poems, nostalgic poems (epics), mourning poems, military poems, etc. Classical poems include The Book of Songs, Songs of the South, Yuefu, Han Fu, Folk Songs of the Southern and Northern Dynasties and so on. Modern poetry is generally quatrains, rhymes and verses.

Expand the difference between ancient poetry and modern poetry.

I. Metric classification

1. Classical poetry: it is not restricted by meter except rhyme.

2. Modern poetry: In addition to rhyme, it is also restricted by meter.

Second, classify by word.

1, ancient poetry: there are four words, five words, six words, seven words and miscellaneous words.

2. Modern poetry: only five words and seven words.

Third, classify according to the number of sentences

1, ancient poetry: from two sentences to a hundred sentences.

2. Modern poetry: four quatrains, eight regular poems and more than eight regular poems.