What are the tonal patterns of wujue, or five-character truncated verse?

Jueju is a curtailed version of jintishi that has only four lines.  Jueju can take the form

of five or seven characters to a line.  Parallelism is not involved in writing jueju. 

T following are the tonal patterns of the five-character truncated verse:

A.  Starting with the deflected tone (level-tone rhyme)

            △△     ○○     △                     OR                   △△     △○     ●

            ○○     △△     ●                                             ○○     △△     ●                                            

            ○○     ○△     △                                             ○○     ○△     △

            △△     △○     ●                                             △△     △○     ●

B.  Starting with the level tone (level-tone rhyme)

            ○○     ○△     △                     OR                   ○○     △△     ●

            △△     △○     ●                                             △△     △○     ●                                            

            △△     ○○     △                                             △△     ○○     △

            ○○     △△     ●                                             ○○     △△     ●

C.  Starting with the deflected tone (deflected-tone rhyme)

            △△     ○○     ▲

            ○○     ○△     ▲

            ○○     △△     ○

            △△     ○○     ▲

D.  Starting with the level tone (deflected-tone rhyme)

            ○○     ○△     ▲

            △△     ○○     ▲

            △△     △○     ○

            ○○     ○△     ▲

            ○ =  level tone

            △ = deflected tone

            ● = rhyme (level tone)

            ▲ = rhyme (deflected tone)

            ○ = can be replaced by a deflected tone

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