[ chángduǎnjù ] 1.poetry written to certain tunes with strict tonal patterns and rhyme schemes in fixed numbers of lines and words 2.a kind of classical poetry consisting chiefly of seven-character lines interspersed with shorter or longer ones
As their meters , there are form of four sentences of seven words , form of the mixture of four , five or six long and short sentences 其格律有七言四句体、长短句间杂的四句体、五句体、六句体，一般都押韵，大多押平声韵，衬字、村词运用普遍。
