That's a very nice poem (thanks!), but not a good example, mostly because it is a poem. As a poem, it has no equivalent rendering in colloquial Chinese. Also

That's a very nice poem (thanks!), but not a good example, mostly because it is a poem. As a poem, it has no equivalent rendering in colloquial Chinese. Also as a poem, it deliberate sheds information, permitting (or even pursuing?) ambiguity in its quest for specific phonics, scansion, symbolism (in many cases - maybe not in this one), etc. Probably the way to get an example is to start from something spoken in modern Chinese and see how it comes out different in written Chinese?