中国的诗歌,经历了相传为黄帝时表现先民打猎生活的二言诗,到先秦时期四言诗为主、两汉南北朝时期五言诗为主、隋唐时期七言诗为主,以及后来两宋时期词的流行、元代散曲的崛起等,全都是有格律的。即使是诗体自由的古风、歌行,也是有格律的。“五四”新文化运动起来,引进了西方诗歌,于是有了自由体新诗。其实,自由体新诗据以仿效的西方诗歌也是有格律的,只是不同于中国诗歌的格律罢了。闻一多 Chinese poetry went through two poets which were illegally recorded as hunting the ancestors of the Yellow Emperor during the Huang dynasty. The main four-character poem in the pre-Qin period, the five-poem poetry in the Han dynasty and the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the seven-poem poetry in the Sui and Tang dynasties, , The rise of Sanqu in the Yuan Dynasty, etc., all have a law. Even the poetic freedom of the antiquity, song line, there is a law. “May Fourth ” New Culture Movement up, the introduction of Western poetry, so there is a new verse of freedom. In fact, the Western poetry of the free-body new poetry is also a metrical form, just different from the Chinese law of poetry. Smell more than one