五 |
wǔ yán jué jù | poetic form consisting of four lines of five syllables, with rhymes on first, second and fourth line |
五 |
wǔ | five / 5 |
言 |
yán | words / speech / to say / to talk |
绝 |
jué | to cut short / extinct / to disappear / to vanish / absolutely / by no means |
绝 |
jué | variant of 绝 |
绝 |
jué jù | quatrain (poetic form) |
句 |
gōu | variant of 勾 |
句 |
jù | sentence / clause / phrase / classifier for phrases or lines of verse |