The early Tang poet Wang Bo (650-27) has only a few yuefu (Music Bureau) poems extant, but made an important contribution to the history of yuefu literature. The present essay examines and evaluates Wang's inheritance and innovation in his yuefu composition, which reveals a reciprocal relationship between the poetic forms of shi-poetry, songs, and rhapsodies. The main objects of discussion include Wang's representative yuefu poems, "Lin gaotai" ("Overlooking from a high terrace", "Cailian gui" ("Return from picking lotus"), "Qiuye chang" ("The autumn night is long"), "Longxi xing" ("Ballad on Longxi"), etc. With an emphasis on the music features and the stanza structures, the discussion focuses on how these devices work in the presentation of the themes on the sojourner missing his wife, the lone wife thinking of her campaigning husband, and Wang's autobiographic discourse. The discussion will yield hints to our quest for Wang's contribution to early Tang yuefu development, which relied heavily upon the achievements of poets of the Southern Dynasties period.