Several basic characteristics of poetry;
First, focus on social life.
The second is the lyric expression of thoughts and feelings.
Third, rich imagination.
Fourth, the musical beauty of language.
Poetic language especially requires musicality, and musical beauty can enhance the expressive force and artistic appeal of works. The musical factors of poetic language include rhythm, tone, rhythm and so on. Poetry requires clear rhythm, harmonious tone, a certain sense of rhythm, beautiful and touching recitation and musical beauty.
Characteristics of words:
Ci is the lyrics, and Qu is the new Yan music since Sui and Tang Dynasties. Because this style depends on music, it determines a series of characteristics of ci in system style. First of all, a word must have a sound. This sound is the music score for writing this word. The name of this sound is epigraph. Some epigrams are originally related to the content of the words, such as Bai Juyi's "Recalling Jiangnan", which is about recalling the life of Jiangnan scenery. However, when later generations wrote lyrics based on the epigraph "Recalling Jiangnan", they only took its tunes, but the content did not have to be related to Jiangnan. In this way, the epigraph only represents a tune, so some poets indicate the topic under the epigraph.