Classical Poetry Metrical Studies

Author: Wang Li
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Publish Date: 2004-12-01
Features: Classical poetry is also known as "ancient style." Since the emergence of regulated verse in the Tang Dynasty, poets still did not abandon ancient forms. Some poems did not follow the tones, parallelism, and grammar of regulated verse but imitated the less restrictive style of the ancients. Thus, regulated verse and classical poetry became two opposing poetic forms. This book is a specialized work by the renowned linguist Professor Wang Li on the rhyme patterns of Chinese classical poetry. In this book, Professor Wang Li summarizes and analyzes the characteristics and rules of classical poetry, including the number of characters per line, rhyme usage, parallelism, sentence structures, grammar, tones of five-character and seven-character classical poems, irregular rhyme patterns, the Bailing style, regulated classical poetry, and classical-style regulated verse, from the perspective of linguistics, providing a path for us to understand and appreciate classical poetry.