Analysis of Tu Fu
The oldest soul to ever live
in the land of make-believe.
Drinking Dragon's Eye tea
from the pool of illusion.
One eye is the golden Sun,
the other the silver Moon.
Across a landscape of Jade mountains
and "drifting sand in the wind."
Disappearing in a storm
beyond the Island of the Immortals
to an abandoned temple.
A stone pillow for dreams.
A god of poetry--
older than words.
from "Whistling Past the Graveyard"
| Scheme | XXAB BXXX XXXX AX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01011101 0011101 101011 1011010 1110101 0100101 01011110 0101001 010001 0101010010 1101010 011011 011100 1011 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 463 |
| Words | 89 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 65 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
About this poem
The poem is a biographical fantasy.
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Written on March 28, 2015
Submitted by learnott1958 on December 25, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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