Analysis of Remembrance
Su Tung-po 1037 (Meishan, Sichuan) – 1101 (Huizong of Song)
To what can our life on earth be likened?
To a flock of geese,
alighting on the snow.
Sometimes leaving a trace of their passage.
| Scheme | ABCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110111110 10111 1101 0110011110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 137 |
| Words | 27 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 15, 2023
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