Rhyme and rhythm of poetry

Author: Xu Zhigang (Editor)
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Publish Date: 2002-10-01
Features: This book is comprehensive, applicable, and easy to understand, connecting theory with practice. It not only explains the basic knowledge of poetic meter for beginners and poets but also analyzes and revises poems that do not conform to the rules, providing comparisons. Particularly, it addresses the common problem many people face: "difficulty in checking the tonal patterns of characters and the rhyme of words and phrases." The third part of the book, "Retrieval of Tonal Patterns and Rhymes of Chinese Characters," includes 7,738 characters. Regardless of which character, opening the book and flipping through the phonetic order allows for immediate identification of its modern pronunciation, its tonal pattern (pingze or zeze) in classical poetry, and its rhyme category (one of the 106 rhyme divisions in the "Pewen Shi Yun"). This undoubtedly provides great assistance to both poets and researchers of poetry. Therefore, the publication of this book is highly meaningful. It plays a positive role in promoting the excellent traditional culture and excellent socialist culture of our country, flourishing poetic creation, and enhancing people's understanding and appreciation of poetry.