Poets in the prosperous and middle Tang Dynasty tried to reform regulated verses because of the obvious disadvantages of regulated verses and the distinction between pre-Tang poetry and regulated verses,therefore coming into existence the trend of replacing regulated verses with Pre-Tang poetry.

The author holds that both couplet and regulated verse originated from the period of Qi Liang in Nan Dynasty.

Chinese metrical verse sound pattern contents rhythm and the rules of rhyming.

In its developing process, the establishment of form is the base for the flourish of metrical verse.

The thesis employs several aesthetical theories, such as Russian Formalism and Gestalt Theory, to summarize the aesthetic rules in the course of the evolution of metrical verse - its birth, development and latest changes.

One of the most prominent poets at that time is YUAN Zhen,whose regular verse in replying rhyme was quite influential then for its ingeniousness and variation.

When I read Yang Mengfang’s poems,I deeply appreciate the versification,the poetic art and poetic teaching.

Poetic rhythms of New Metrical Poetry are the regular arrangement of time units of the same sound intervals,which comprise several levels: the most basic rhythmical unit is sound caesura and semantic caesura.

With the purpose of restructuring metrical patterns of New Poetry,this paper addresses such problems concerned as "the rectification of the name","standardizing the terms","establishing typical poetic lines","defining major normal forms" and "the pedigree of new metrical poetry".

The poet LUO Yin of late Tang Dynasty ranked the second in number of seven-character regulated verses among all the composers in Tang Dynasty.