Li Po's "To the City of Nan-king" begins: "Thou that hast seen six kingdoms pass away, / Accept my song and these three cups I drain!" Which form is this specimen?

Griffith's translation of the Ramayana reads: "Ikshvaku's sons from days of old / Were ever brave and mighty-souled." Which feature decides that this is poetry?

The Arabian Nights tells of a poor fisherman: "He went every day to fish very early, and each day he made a rule not to throw his nets more than four times." Which form is this specimen?

Kalidasa's Sakoontala prints this: "CHARIOTEER. [Looking at the deer, and then at the King.] Great Prince," Which form is this specimen?

In Sakoontala the words "[Drives the chariot at full speed]" stand in brackets between two speeches. What is this bracketed line called?

Tagore's Gitanjali 1 reads: "This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life." Which form does the printed layout follow?

Tagore's English Gitanjali is often called a book of prose poems. Which poetic feature does its printed English text leave out?

Lu Xun's "The Diary of a Madman" has a first entry that begins: "Tonight the moon is very bright." The story runs on in the narrator's own paragraphs. Which form is it?

Toru Dutt's "Our Casuarina-Tree" opens: "Like a huge Python, winding round and round / The rugged trunk, indented deep with scars". Which form is this specimen?

Meng Hao-jan's "A Friend Expected" runs: "Over the chain of giant peaks / The great red sun goes down". Which feature decides its form?

In The Book of Good Counsels the tiger offers a golden bangle, and the traveller "waded into the pool, where he soon found himself plunged in mud, and unable to move." Which form is this?

Sakoontala prints "STAGE-MANAGER." and "ACTRESS." above the words each one says. What does a name printed above every speech show?

Kalidasa's Sakoontala contains long passages of verse spoken inside its dialogue.

Li Po's "Thoughts in a Tranquil Night" and Lu Xun's "The Diary of a Madman" both describe moonlight. Which feature separates Li Po's text from Lu Xun's?

Li Po's "Thoughts in a Tranquil Night" ends: "Then droop my head, / And sink to dreams of thee -- / My Fatherland, of thee!" Which form is this specimen?

Sakoontala opens: "SCENE—A Forest. Enter King Dushyanta, armed with a bow and arrow, in a chariot, chasing an antelope, attended by his Charioteer." Which form is this?

Much of Kalidasa's Sakoontala is written in verse. Which feature still decides that the whole work is drama?

Griffith's Ramayana and the Arabian Nights both tell long stories. Which feature makes the Ramayana poetry and not prose?

In The Book of Good Counsels the tiger's tale runs on in paragraphs, with short verses quoted inside it. Which form does the telling itself use?

Which of these Afro-Asian works was written to be performed by actors on a stage?