ChatGPT's idiomatic translation of the poem:
Yu Xin’s was a life of utter desolation; in old age, his poems and rhapsodies stirred the riverlands.
ChatGPT's idiomatic translation of the poem:
Yu Xin’s was a life of utter desolation; in old age, his poems and rhapsodies stirred the riverlands.
Opus:
No life ran more bleak and desolate than Yu Xin's —
yet in his twilight years, his verses stirred the rivers and the passes.
I think the feminine rhyme sounds unintentionally comic.
I guess that works, it is always difficult to capture the cultural and linguistic melancholy of such poetry.