this is really good. we occasionally got poems like this in my high school mandarin class and i kind of miss having an excuse to study them.
thinking about how the romantic languages and chinese lend themselves to different structures for poetry is pretty neat. in particular, the couple of poems i saw constructed around relationships between the words in each column kind of blew my mind. can’t remember what any of them were called now. i think my favorite was another 10x5, that amounted to something like “i saw a picture that made me feel like i was actually there and it was beautiful,” and, well, it was beautiful.