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Eye rhymes
Cf. eye dialect. That the Han script is highly graphical lends readily to the ability of drawing pictures with poems. I do not mean the depiction of imagery with words; I mean literally the arrangement of graphical design elements, their regularity, duplication, symmetry, dualism, etc., and sometimes the thereof.


 * 王歙為和親之侯，班超為定遠之使. 馬武無預於甲兵，馮唐不論於將帥. (Yu Xin. Clearly deliberate.)
 * 申包胥之頓地，碎之以首；蔡威公之淚盡，加之以血. (ibid., not in exactly regular slot-pairs)
 * 殿狎江鷗，宮鳴野雉. 湛盧去國，艅艎失水. (ibid., scattered, possibly deliberately irregular slots)
 * 望赤岸而霑衣 (ibid., the 土 - 干 shape-rotation in 180 degrees), and the next in the couplet:
 * 艤烏江而不度 (ibid., series of dots, 90-degree rotation)
 * 蔑因親於教愛，忍和樂於彎弧. (ibid., very nice compositionally but a bit contrived)
 * 熾火兮焚旗，貞風兮害蠱. (ibid., chiastic and mirror-symmetric slot-positions)
 * 硎阱-摺拉 (ibid., 开 in 硎 approximately correspond to 井 in 阱) See also next in the couplet:
 * 鷹鸇-批㩌 (ibid.)
 * 冤霜夏零，憤泉秋沸. (ibid, following the previous couplet)
 * 水毒秦涇，山高趙陘. (ibid., approximate. Of course *阜高 would have been too weird even for Yu Xin.)


 * 襲溫恭之黻衣兮，被禮義之繡裳. (Zhang Heng, and his wardrobe)
 * 水何澹澹 - 山島竦峙 (Cao Cao, chiastic and mirror-symmetric slot-positions)
 * 路逶迤而脩迥兮，川既漾而濟深. (Wang Can, road-road road -- water water-water)
 * 指蓬壺而翻翰 - 望崑閬而揚音 (Bao Zhao, nice and natural)
 * 輕攏慢捻抹復挑 (Bai Juyi)
 * 天涯霜雪霽寒霄 (Du Fu)
 * 無邊落木蕭蕭下，不盡長江滾滾來. (Du Fu)
 * 旌斾 逶迤 碣石 間 (Gao Shi)
 * 校尉羽書飛瀚海，單于獵火照狼山. (ibid. One of my favourite.)

"Lesser" forms:


 * 微風吹閨闥 - 羅帷自飄颺 (Traditional Yuefu)
 * 歲崢嶸而愁暮，心惆悵而哀離. (Bao Zhao, not very representative, as it draws simply from ideophonic vocabulary, but the dualism in positional parallelism is still kinda significant)
 * 邊庭飄颻那可度，絕域蒼茫更何有. (Gao Shi)
 * 寰中簫管不曾聞，筵上犧牲無處覓. (Wei Zhuang, similar effect to the above but not ideophonic)
 * 樓閣玲瓏五雲起，其中綽約多仙子. (Bai Juyi., with ideophonic components)

Quotation from the Wen Xin Diao Long
聯邊者，半字同文者也. 狀貌山川，古今咸用；施於常文，則齟齬為瑕. 如不獲免，可至三接；三接之外，其字林乎！