Analysis of Li Po
Drink from the empty cup,
filled with abominations
and self-enlightenment.
Journey upstream thru the Three Gorges.
Legend says the world ends there.
Even the sacred mountains have been banished.
Your kingdom is immortal,
as are your bones,
walking on water to the Yangtze River.
There, fall into wine that flows
from the mountains of the Moon.
Tonight, the Moon is a purple grape
crushed for your drunken delight.
Drink from the empty cup,
and drown.
from "Whistling Past the Graveyard"
Scheme | AbxbxxxbxbxxxAx x |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101 111 010100 101110110 1010111 10010101110 1101010 1111 10110101110 1101111 1010101 010110101 1111001 110101 01 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 528 |
Words | 96 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 15, 1 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 195 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
About this poem
The poem is a biographical fantasy
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Written on February 15, 2015
Submitted by learnott1958 on December 17, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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