Analysis of The Double Ninth Festival

To the tune of "Intoxicated Under the Shadow of Flowers"

Light mists and heavy clouds,
  melancholy the long dreary day.

In the golden censer
  the burning incense is dying away.

It is again time
  for the lovely Double-Ninth Festival;

The coolness of midnight
  penetrates my screen of sheer silk
     and chills my pillow of jade.

After drinking wine at twilight
  under the chrysanthemum hedge,

My sleeves are perfumed
  by the fragrance of the plants.

Oh, I cannot say it is not endearing,

Only, when the west wind stirs the curtain,
  I see that I am more gracile
     than the yellow flowers.