Analysis of Liu Tsung-Yuan
"an old man" banished
to the Land of Lonely Dreams
beyond the River of Stars
and looking-glass moonbeams.
ten thousand skies
starlight the dragon's eyes
beyond the River of Snow
twelve hundred years ago.
| Scheme | XAXA BBCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11110 1011101 0101011 01011 1101 10101 0101011 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 220 |
| Words | 39 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
About this poem
The poem is a biographical fantasy.
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Written on February 23, 2015
Submitted by learnott1958 on December 18, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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