Analysis of Wang Wei
The Jade Coach approaches
on a lonely moonbeam of light.
Red dust fills the doorway.
Adorn a red silk jacket.
Walk to the Jade Coach
on sixty year old bones--
and never look back.
Disappear beyond the mountains,
vanish into landscape--
"It never ends."
Return to the 10,000 things.
Journey back to the beginning.
The beginning is the end--
the end is unknown.
from "Whistling Past the Graveyard"
Scheme | XXX XXXX XXX XXXX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011010 1010111 11101 0101110 11011 110111 01011 0101010 10011 1101 01101 10110010 0010101 01101 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 445 |
Words | 85 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 3, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 62 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
About this poem
The poem is a biographical fantasy.
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Written on February 26, 2015
Submitted by learnott1958 on December 18, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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