The Sunflower
By Bing hua
Translation by Xu yingcai
Is a newborn baby‘s
Sweet smile in its dream
Or the flower of youth
In bud ready to bloom
---- No
It's an ancient Greek nymph
Clytie
In love with the Sun
She loves him
So her heart turns toward him
From sunrise to sunset.
She loves him
So she looks up to him
Till her hair turns grey
Near or far
It's measured by light
Faithful and true
It's witnessed by Heaven and the Earth.
Van Gogh's Sunflower
Has a set value
But Clytie's
Is priceless
O
My Apollo
I love you
But conceited as I am
I can’t utter
The word love
All my love
Has gone hidden
In Van Gogh's paintings
My love
Is that of Clytie's
And Clytie's
Is
The sunflower
About this poem
The poem, first published in 2016.
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Written on September 11, 2016
Submitted by bing_h on August 11, 2021
Modified by bing_h on August 28, 2021
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | xx axxxbxxc Ddx Ddx xxex feaa bbexfg gca gaaaf |
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Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 636 |
Words | 132 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 8, 3, 3, 4, 4, 6, 3, 5 |
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