Ancient poems can be divided into narrative poems, lyric poems, farewell poems, frontier poems, pastoral poems, ancient poems (poems about history), mourning poems, military poems and so on. Classical poems include The Book of Songs, Songs of the South, Yuefu, Han Fu, Folk Songs of the Southern and Northern Dynasties and so on. Modern poetry is generally quatrains, metrical poems and parallel poems (long laws).

Ancient poetry is a style with special format and rhythm, represented by ancient poetry and modern poetry. According to rhythm, it can be divided into two categories: ancient poetry and modern poetry. According to the content, it can be divided into narrative poems, lyric poems, farewell poems, frontier poems, pastoral poems, nostalgic poems (epics), mourning poems, object-chanting poems, military poems and so on.

Antique poetry: Antique poetry, also known as archaism, is written in accordance with the practice of antique poetry, with a relatively free form and is not bound by metrical rules. Judging from the number of words in poetry, there are four-character poems, five-character poems and seven-character poems. Four words are four words, five words are five words and seven words are seven words. After the Tang Dynasty, there were few four-character poems, so they were usually divided into five-character poems and seven-character poems. Five-character ancient poems are referred to as five ancient poems for short; Seven-character ancient poems are referred to as seven ancient poems; The use of three, five and seven characters at the same time is generally considered as seven ancient characters.