Share of poetry
Share of the author's own works classified as poetry (詩類), by works and by characters. The site's headline metric.
62.0% of the authors' own 609,494 works are poems. By century the share falls from 88% (14th–15th) to 75% (16th), 62% (17th), 51% (18th) and 42% (19th). By characters poetry is 18.8%: many works, few characters. The direction matches Kwak (2026): poetry largest, declining.
- Formula
- Poetry works / own works (per century); poetry characters / own characters
- Caveats
- Uses the ITKC classification as given (rhapsodies and lyrics are subclasses of 詩類). Where a cycle of ten poems is one work, the work-based share falls and the character-based share does not.
- External check
- Direction compared with Kwak (2026): poetry largest, gradual decline, 20th-century rebound.
- Reliability card
- exactExact count — read straight from the source XML
Direction compared with Kwak (2026): poetry largest, gradual decline, 20th-century rebound.
Classification quality: a stratified sample of 300 own works (major class × century) was blind-coded from titles; 97.3% agree with the ITKC major class (Wilson 95% 94.8%–98.6%; 3 undecided counted as disagreement; a second coder re-coded 30 of them blind with 97% agreement). Known block error: 284 works of 湖陰雜稿 (ITKC_MO_0126A) filed as 冊文類 carry poem titles; they are left as classified and noted here.
| Century | Works | Own works | By works | By characters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9th century | 60 | 389 | 15.4% | 2.5% |
| 12th century | 1,531 | 2,130 | 71.9% | 49.2% |
| 13th century | 958 | 1,309 | 73.2% | 33.3% |
| 14th century | 11,230 | 12,768 | 88.0% | 51.3% |
| 15th century | 30,858 | 35,198 | 87.7% | 52.1% |
| 16th century | 104,394 | 139,356 | 74.9% | 27.3% |
| 17th century | 122,933 | 198,054 | 62.1% | 17.9% |
| 18th century | 76,094 | 150,496 | 50.6% | 13.4% |
| 19th century | 29,174 | 69,085 | 42.2% | 12.5% |
| birth year unknown | 626 | 709 | 88.3% | 51.2% |