A dataset of Tang poetry sentence pairs for metrical imitation

To address these challenges, this study presents a specialized paired corpus of Tang poetry imitation used for metrical imitation tasks. Sourced from The Complete Tang Poems (Quan Tangshi), the dataset comprises 17,960 entries across four distinct genres: pentasyllabic/heptasyllabic quatrains, pentasyllabic regulated verses, heptasyllabic quatrains, and heptasyllabic regulated verses.

Each entry consists of an original poetic couplet line pair and a corresponding manually crafted imitation line pair. All imitation line pairs were created by specialists in Classical Chinese. While strictly following the metrical patterns of the original lines, the generated imitations underwent a triple-verification process—covering metrical conformity, antithetical parallelism, and imagery consistency, ensuring that no core content words were repeated from the original lines.