Wang Feng-Yuan
Wang Feng-Yuan
"Call the East Wind back"
from the Turning Wheel of Time,
and the echo of a long journey.
Plant a rainbow of flowers and trees:
Peach, apricot, and plum.
White lilacs, purple orchids,
pink lotus, red persimmons,
golden chrysanthemums.
Raindrops of 10,000 creations.
Tell the West Wind to wait,
while you dream of ghost flowers--
even though no one can stop the wind.
from "Whistling Past the Graveyard"
About this poem
The poem is a biographical fantasy
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Written on March 19, 2015
Submitted by learnott1958 on December 21, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XXX AXXAXX XXX X |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 458 |
Words | 85 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 6, 3, 1 |
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