五言絕句
賈島
尋隱者不遇
松下問童子, 言師採藥去。
只在此山中, 雲深不知處。
Five-character-quatrain
Jia Dao
A NOTE LEFT FOR AN ABSENT ECLUSE
When I questioned your pupil, under a pine-tree,
"My teacher," he answered, " went for herbs,
But toward which corner of the mountain,
How can I tell, through all these clouds ?"