Chinese poetry forms
Jueju, lüshi, gushi, and ci are the forms with their own pages. Yuefu, the old music-bureau songs, and fu, the Han rhapsody, belong in the history and are named here. They do not yet have hubs of their own.
Ci 詞 What ci and cipai mean: named tune patterns, line lengths, rhyme, and stanza shapes, with complete examples by Wen Tingyun, Su Shi, and Li Qingzhao. Gushi 古詩 Understand gushi, or ancient-style verse, through Li Bai’s Drinking Alone beneath the Moon: flexible length, changing rhyme, and a voice that can turn. Jueju 絕句 What a jueju is: a four-line Chinese poem, five or seven characters to the line, and the difference between a regulated quatrain and an ancient-style one. Lüshi 律詩 Read lüshi through rhyme and parallel couplets, with examples of ordinary eight-line regulated verse and the longer pailü form.