Digital tools for analyzing Chinese poetry, Middle Chinese tones, and regulated verse.
These are digital tools for the study of Chinese poetics and prosody, focusing on the medieval period. They were developed with the help of ChatGPT 5.5. All are beta versions and results need to be double checked individually.
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Quick tone lookup and compact 平仄 output
Identify Middle Chinese tones and generate compact ping-ze output from pasted Chinese text.
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General tone analysis for four-, five-, and seven-character poems
Analyze four-, five-, and seven-character verse with line and couplet statistics, including ambiguity overrides.
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Focused analysis of five-character verse
Analyze the tonal prosody of five-character verse showing tonal contrasts in various line configurations.
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Testing regulated verse and regulated quatrain patterns
Check poems against the usual formal profile of regulated verse and regulated quatrains.