Analysis of River and seas
I was born in a village in South Hunan,
There was a stream in front of my village.
A childhood paradise
Where I played and grew
With my brothers and sisters.
I moved South of Gansu, to the ancient city,
To attend school.
The Xi river flows nearby.
My after-school paradise
Where my play had no end.
Yet now, it is far away.
It do not know where it comes from.
But I know
It is just for me.
Later, I studied at Hunan University
On the banks of the Xiang River,
With its famous mountains, pavilions, and rivers.
I’m standing on Orange Isle,
Watching the gushing water surging northward
into the Yangtze River,
And my childhood heaven
I wander, and now
I live on this side of the sea
Where the waves are monstrous.
Yet there is still a ripple in my heart,
That flows like a stream,
Caressing the shores of my memory,
Leaving traces of love.
Scheme | X X A X B C X X A X X X X C C D B X X D X X C X X X C X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11100100110 1101011110 0110 11101 1110010 11111101010 1011 0110111 110110 111111 1111101 11111111 111 11111 101101100100 101101010 111010010010 1101101 10010101010 0101110 01110 11001 11111101 101110 1111010011 11101 0100111100 101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 831 |
Words | 163 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 28 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 23 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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Written on August 13, 2021
Submitted by matt_hu2002 on August 17, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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