Analysis of Written on Valentine Day (Chinese-English)
Huzhai Fang 1956 (Beijing)
寡心情,美人偷看,桃面犹似寒冰。恼媚眼,带笑勾魂,移步香飘四溢,微风绕栏榭亭。无由叩门丝贸,辗转迟眠,还醒三更。
叹错年庚,话无言,三观更难知探。北南殊域,海天悬隔, 真个,爱恨无缘构建,相逢总是言生。似星辰,天间各飘各行。
I have no mood to peep at the beauty
Her peachy face seems pretty icy
I resent her soul-snatching smile
She moves and her fragrance lingers awhile
Like a breeze through the pavilion rails
I have no excuse her silk to trade
I can’t fall asleep until very late
And in the small hours up I often wake
I sigh for our miss-matched ages
Her world view I can’t detect by words
The south and the north stand far apart
Betwixt ocean’nd sky there’s much distance
It’s really impossible to build up love or hate
Even seen often she won’t be an acquaintance
Like stars we drift in the sky and never date
Scheme | AABBXXCXXXXDCDC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 1 1111111010 010111010 10101101 1100101001 101100101 111010111 1110101101 00011011101 111101110 011110111 010011101 01111110 1100100111111 101101111010 11110010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 966 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 15 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 236 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 58 |
About this poem
I wrote this on Valentine day 2020.
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Written on February 14, 2020
Submitted by fanghuzhai on April 23, 2023
Modified on April 23, 2023
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