The Korean sijo highlights paradox with its three line structure (3,4,4,4) (3,4,4,4) (3,5,4,3). Its statement, counter statement and elaboration pits the paradox of the pain of passion and the tenderness of love. The fifth syllable in the final line is just 'too too' perfect. But you may have missed the Sonnet which is the quintessence of romantic touch or the Japanese Tanka which highlights the silences of Zen, or the core poem which was the hypertext genesis . Yeh Nai Tse has produced a version in Chinese poetry and pictorials (certainly Michelangelo's will appear. But if this is too much at one time return to home with mouse like touch.