Poetry Visualization

七月

All stanzas visualized as phrase groups with tone curves and character density

Shijing, or the Classic of Poetry, is the earliest surviving anthology of Chinese poetry and one of the foundational texts of the Chinese literary tradition. Qiyue ("Seventh Month") is one of its best-known agrarian poems, tracing labor, season, household life, and ritual across the farming year. This visualization treats each stanza as a field of phrase groups: character cells are tinted by stroke density, while a light curve above each group traces tonal movement.