Based upon a thorough, quantitative investigation into the fivecharacter poetry of the Liang 梁, Chen 陳, and Sui 隋 dynasties, this study first comes to the conclusion that, in the period in question, the tendency of "regulatedness" (lU haa 律化 ) basically rose day by day. With the establishment of this conclusion, two complicated problems stand out to be solved. The first is how the stress on the arrangement of the "four tones" (si sheng 四聲 ), which the Yong-ming 永明 movement of tonal euphony originally advocated, shifted into the arrangement of the "level and oblique tones" (ping ze 平仄 ), which the regulated verse required. The second is how the places of tonal arrangement gradually came to be regularized as the second and the fourth characters of a line. The rest of this study provides my answer to these two problems.