Analysis of Shui lung yin

Su Tung-po 1037 (Meishan, Sichuan) – 1101 (Huizong of Song)



Like a flower, but not a flower
No one cares when it falls
And lies discarded at the roadside
But though
Unmoved, I think about
The tangle of wounded tendrils
Lovely eyes full of sleep
About to open,yet
Still in dreams, following the wind ten thousand miles
In search of love
Startled, time and again, by the oriole's cry

Do not pity the flower that flies off
Grieve for the western garden
Its fallen red already beyond mending --
Now, after morning rain
What's left?
A pond full of broken duckweed
If the three parts of spring
Two turn to dust
One to flowing water
Look --
These are not catkins
But drop after drop of parted lover's tears


Scheme ABCXXBXCXXX XXDXXXDXAXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 101011010 111111 01010101 11 011101 0101101 101111 0111 101100011101 0111 1010011011 1110010111 1101010 11010100110 110101 11 0111101 101111 1111 111010 1 11110 11101110101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 625
Words 122
Sentences 2
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 11, 12
Lines Amount 23
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 253
Words per stanza (avg) 60
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Su Tung-po

Su Shi, courtesy name Zizhan (Chinese: 子瞻), art name Dongpo (Chinese: 東坡), was a Chinese calligrapher, gastronome, painter, pharmacologist, poet, politician, and writer of the Song dynasty. more…

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