Wang Yuyang was the poet laureate during the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty. Not only had he left poetic creation massive in quantity and magnificent in quality, but he also proposed two impactful poetic theories as his legacy: ”The romantic charmtheory” and the ”theory of the tonal patterns of Chinese ancient poetry.” However, although the influence of the latter is no less important than the former, the former attracted far more academic attentions than the latter, as ”the romantic charm” has almost become the hallmark of Wang's poetry. The negligence of Wang's ”tonal pattern theory” has caused a gap in the academic study of Chinese ancient poetry, and somewhat misled the evaluation of Wang's own poetic creation. In this regard, this paper attempts to grope further for this topic. Even though Wang's creation of the seven-syllable ancient poems does not exactly correspond to his theories, his notions about tonal patterns still have a great impact on Qing's poetic development, for which is this paper's aim to pinpoint Wang's literary position.