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In the Mountains on a Summer Day

Li Bai 0701 (Suyab) – 0762 (Yangtze River)

Gently I stir a white feather fan,
With open shirt sitting in a green wood.
I take off my cap and hang it on a jutting stone;
A wind from the pine-trees trickles on my bare head.
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Submitted by halel on July 15, 2020

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Scheme ABCD
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 175
Words 37
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
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