Analysis of Type AB



Type AB
By Xiaoyuan Yin

All vicissitudes were actually within a (fortissimo) flick of a switch, where Landsteiner
Had made a brief stop, where lands subsided into riverbeds, and canopies of banyan trees
Spread out above the surface of the water. Two doves, one vermilion and one ivory
Symbolized the sun and the moon as its wings – This was a prelude to the epic of a river
About which the fisherman always knew better

“Everything in the universe is in the shape of twisted double strands, one dominant and the other recessive.’ But where are the smoldering coals? Hidden in the red pimpernel braids
Disguised as human veins. They salute one another, without ever seeing through
The family emblem on his mantle, capturing a scorpion-shapes shadow
In his throbbing heart… The heraldic meaning of blood types is in
What they describe literally only: Bare your wrist, NOT your chest

He is to draw a conclusion, the man who put everything in universe
Into archives: the 3rd kind of index after gender and race
“The personality of A2 can be……” You do not actually know what you were arguing about
In the windy, neon-soaked streets. “I’m Type B too.” It turned out that you had found a backup vessel
for your soul. Who is the Type AB guy among you? The universal recipient

Of all joys and sorrows? There is a librarian, who has remained silent all day long,
His hands are now storming through piles of books on the desk: aesthetics, philosophy, literature and mathematics…
When you paddle across to the other side, he collects all your relics


Scheme XA BXBBB XBXAX XXXXX XCC
Poetic Form
Metre 11 111 1010001000101110111 1101111010011011101 1101010101011101001100 1001001111110110101010 0110101110 100010100111010111000010010111010011000111 01110110110100110101 0100101110100010011 0110100101011110 1101100010111111 11110010011110010 011011110101001 001001011111100111010001 00101011111111111110110 11111011101100100100 1110101100100110110111 1111101111101010010010000010 111001101011011110
Characters 1,545
Words 271
Sentences 10
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 5, 5, 5, 3
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 61
Words per line (avg) 13
Letters per stanza (avg) 245
Words per stanza (avg) 54
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Submitted by catherineink on June 24, 2016

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Xiaoyuan Yin

Chief protagonist of encyclopedic poetry writing in China, advocate of hermaphroditical characteristics in poetic creation. Epic Poet, author of 18 long narrative poems (up to 70 thousand lines) and 12 other series (physics, chemistry, biology, geography, geology, psychology, calligraphy, photography, musicology, geometry, atmospheric science, and information sciences) . Member of Translators Association of China and the Poetry Institute of China. Winner of the Best International Translator for 2008 of IPTRC, andthe Prize for Distinguished Translator in the 4th World Poetry Prizes Sponsored by Dr. Choi Laisheung. Editor of several official poetry magazines. Over two thousand poetic works have been published in Ottawa Weekend, North American Maple (Canada) , Aust Cai Hong Ying(Australian) , New World Poetry (U.S.A.) , Tong Hua Daily News(Tailand) , China Daily, Global Times, and various magazines in China. more…

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