Suppose you want to make a minimalist anthology of poetry. It'll have 24 short-form poems of all different languages. The goal is to represent the international tradition of high-art poetry as best you can given the constraints. Is this list of languages+forms as good as possible? Why or why not?

THE WESTERN TRADITION

• Greek lyric poem
  
• Latin lyric poem
  
• Italian lyric poem
  
• French lyric poem
  
• Spanish lyric poem
  
• English lyric poem
  
• German lyric poem
  
• Russian lyric poem
  

THE ISLAMICATE TRADITION

• Arabic qit'a
  
• Persian ghazal
  
• Turkish ghazal
  
• Urdu ghazal
  
• Hebrew qit'a
  

THE INDIC TRADITION

• Sanskrit muktaka
  
• Tamil akam/puram
  
• Kannada vachana
  
• Telugu padyam
• Hindi pada
  
• Bengali pada
  
• Marathi abhang
  

THE SINIC TRADITION

• Chinese shi
  
• Japanese tanka
  
• Korean sijo
  
• Vietnamese shi