Mei Yaochen's Choice of Poetic Style

The stylistic distribution featured heavily in Mei Yaochen's poetry:the ancient five-character poetry accounts for the largest proportion,and the five-character rhythm poetry comes second.The ancient fivecharacter poetry took large proportion at the earlier stage,while the five-character rhythm poetry at the later stage.The number of seven-character poems was relatively small,only accounting for a quarter of all his poems,written mostly at the later stage.The five-character rhythm poetry fitted Mei Yaochen's talent and characteristics,widely known as a style that successfully led him into the poetry world.The ancient fivecharacter poetry was more suitable for his personalities and interests,a style for which he made great effort,settled down and pursued for.The seven-character poetry was a style used to write responding poems for his friends when he became famous,which was beneficial for him to correct his partiality at his early stage and integrated into the majority of poetry world.