At one point you call such forms merely exercises, and at another you stress that a poem that is forced into a set form may easily end up looking like chunks of ham thrown into a Styrofoam container.

• 你在某处把这些形式称为仅仅是一种练习，而在别处又强调说一首被硬摆进某种固定形式的诗很容易成为看起来像几块火腿被丢进一个塑料盒子里。