Xie Tiao's poetic style is known for its freshness, elegance and elegance, and his words are delicate, beautiful and skillful. Some poems imitate Xie Lingyun, such as "Traveling to the Mountains" and "Visiting to Jingting Mountain", both of which lay out the scenery. The poem "Mountain Travel" starts with the origin and motivation of traveling to the mountains, roughly contrasts mountains and water, and ends with understanding. Xie Tiao also often described the scenery seen from the window or desk. The landscapes he wrote were mostly connected with the urban buildings. The landscapes in the poems have a picturesque composition of flat distances, with quite a layer of distance, such as "Winter Evening in the County". From the pool in front of the door and the bamboo outside the window to the distant mountains and plains outside the window, words such as "up", "ji" and "中" are used to highlight the directional relationship between the scenery, and the verb "with" can also be used skillfully, such as " "The rocky rocks lead to the distant sky" and "Qingchuan leads to the long road" highlight the dynamics between the rocky rocks and Qingchuan as if they were born from the sway of pen and ink, and therefore have been evaluated as "paintings in poetry".
The tone of Xie Tiao's poems is swaying and calm, and he often repeats words, such as "The clouds are light in the desert at night, the woods are rustling high in the sky", which makes the tone slow and gentle. His landscape poems are good at moving himself into the scenery and injecting emotions. The changes in the scenery stirred up his sensitive soul, and the changes in his mood were synchronized with the scenery. A sudden wind and rain, a flock of birds, and a mass of mist that quietly dispersed made his heart agitated. At that time, Shen Yue advocated the theory of "four tones and eight diseases", which emphasized the rhythm of tones and oblique tones. Xie Tiao was friendly with Shen Yue and was influenced by him, so he paid special attention to the rhythm when composing poems. One-third of Xie Tiao's extant works are eight-line poems. The middle four lines of the eight lines are often composed of antitheses, and are smooth and neat. They are similar to later modern poetry, surpassing the scope of Six Dynasties poetry, and possessing the style of Tang poetry.