One of the oldest of the Chinese patterns and in the 3rd century AD the Jue Ju was very popular. It often carried "suggestively erotic themes". It does not tell a story but attempts to create a mood.
The basic rhythmic unit of Chinese poem is a single character (zi), which is pronounced as one syllable. In English, the word represented by the character might be more than one syllable. Originally the Jue Ju was composed in 5 character lines. By the Tang era, the 8th century it had evolved to a 7 character pattern and became fundamental to Chinese poetry.
The elements of Jue Ju are:
metered, 5 or 7 characters, or word lines. (lines should be the same length)
composed of 4 lines.
often erotic.
compared to Western poetry could be considered terse and compressed.
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