Analysis of Dice



Life and death hang upside down. The rustling dice pressed the sound of knife,
ups and downs on the water. Wrist, shaking, ripples
Passes on suffering and happiness.
Questions everywhere, a few red beans inlaid with autumn.
White clouds become a metaphor.

There is no comfort under the dead branches of the signature.
The knife, fllowing behind, is waiting for the dice to explain.


Scheme XXXXX XX
Poetic Form
Metre 1011111010110111 101101011010 1011000100 101001111110 11010100 1111010011010100 01101110101101
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 375
Words 64
Sentences 7
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 5, 2
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 44
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 153
Words per stanza (avg) 32

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Translated by Sophy Chen

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Submitted by HeartButterfly on July 22, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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