Analysis of The Way To Yong-Mi-Ri

Kinsley Lee 1959 (Seoul)



It’s full of autumn tints on the way
To the Yong-Mi-Ri, the leaves began to brown.
To the hills and vales it’s not long, the way
Was off the city streets and town.

The ridges surrounded the open fields
In softly and the sunlight shined in warm.
Here and there, on the altars, the goldfields
Were put and withered but bleached form.

The dragonflies were flying as the autumn winds.
I was standing between the tombs, and was seeing
Their flying, and it filled me something, some kinds
Of Love to my left life, by the fluttering.

In my young days, I felt the fear on the way
To the Municipal Cemetery, in old days but not now,
To the cemetery, maybe it’s not long the way,
On retuning the fruits were waving. Ciao!


Scheme ABAB CDCD XEXE AFAF
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 111101101 10111010111 1010111101 11010101 0100100101 010001101 101101001 01010111 0101010101 111001010110 11001111011 11111110100 01111101101 100100100011111 101001011101 11010101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 720
Words 145
Sentences 8
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 138
Words per stanza (avg) 34

About this poem

Yong-Mi-Ri is the biggest City Cemetery in Seoul. It's far away from the downtown of City, but now it's not far from Seoul like the old days, I don't know the reason because I'm older than before, or the city is expanding to the surburbs.

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Written on October 01, 2022

Submitted by Kinsley on August 26, 2023

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