詞牌

800 set patterns, each associated with a particular title, called cípái (詞牌). Originally, they were written to be sung to a tune of that title, with a

the album is spelled as 一翦梅, which is the name of a ci-poetic tune pattern (詞牌; cípái). Later, the track was used as the theme song for the eponymous 1984

around 800 set patterns, each associated with a particular title, called cípái 詞牌/词牌. Originally they were written to be sung to a tune of that title, with

meter. Thus, each ci poem is labeled "To the tune of [Tune Name]" (调寄[词牌]/調寄[詞牌]) and fits the meter and rhyme of the tune (much in the same way that Christian

in the table below. The cí as a poetic form follows set patterns or tunes (詞牌). A few poems have been set to music in modern times, most notably the three