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What are the characteristics of poetry?

The characteristics of poetry are as follows:

1. Short: Poetry is usually short and pithy, with concise language and concise form.

2. Conciseness: the language of poetry is highly refined, and every word and sentence has been tempered repeatedly, with rich connotations and beautiful artistic conception.

3. Jump: Poetry is usually not arranged in order, but jumps and changes through images and metaphors to form a unique rhythm and rhythm.

4. Lyricity: Poetry is an artistic form to express emotions, and the author's emotions and inner feelings are expressed through lyricism and emotion in the scenery.

5. Aesthetic feeling: both the language and artistic conception of poetry have aesthetic feeling, which can arouse readers' aesthetic feeling and make people feel the power of beauty.

6. Innocence: Poetry often shows the author's innocence and childlike innocence, and has the characteristics of naturalness, frankness and simplicity, which can impress readers' hearts.

7. Implicitness: Poetry usually does not express emotions directly, but implies and metaphors by means of symbols and hints, so that readers can get a feeling by tasting the connotation of poetry.

8. Artistry: Poetry is an art form, which conveys emotion and artistic conception through unique language and expression, and has high artistic value.

Poetic genre

Poetry genres include ancient poetry, modern poetry, ci, qu and modern poetry.

Ancient poems include ancient poems (poems before Tang Dynasty), songs of Chu and Yuefu poems. Classical poetry does not talk about antithesis and rhymes freely.

Modern poetry is a style of poetry that appeared in the Southern and Northern Dynasties and matured in the Tang Dynasty. Its characteristic is to pay attention to meter, that is, to standardize poetry includes four factors: word number, level tone, rhyme and antithesis. Only five types of modern poems are allowed, namely, five-sentence poems, seven-sentence poems, five-rhyme poems, seven-rhyme poems and arranged poems.

Words are also called Yu Shi, long and short sentences, songs, Qu Zi, Yuefu, etc. Its characteristics: the tone has a fixed frame, the sentence has a fixed number and the word has a fixed tone. According to different words, it can be divided into long tone (9 1 word or more), middle tone (59-90 words) and short tone (58 words or less). Words can be divided into monosyllabic and disyllabic, and disyllabic is divided into two paragraphs, in which the level and number of words are equal or roughly equal, and monosyllabic is only one paragraph.