Analysis of Tz'u No. 13
Li Ching Chao 1804 (Jinan, Shandong) – 1155 (Shaoxing, Zhejiang)
To the tune of "Song of Peace"
Year by year, in the snow,
I have often gathered plum flowers,
intoxicated with their beauty.
Fondling them impudently
I got my robe wet with their lucid tears.
This year I have drifted to the corner
of the sea and the edge
of the horizon,
My temples have turned grey.
Judging by the gust of the evening wind,
It is unlikely I will again
enjoy the plum blossoms.
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011111 111001 111010110 01001110 10011 1111111101 1111101010 101001 10010 110111 1010110101 110101101 010110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 400 |
| Words | 77 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 5, 4, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 77 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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