Old Couple's Departure Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFGHHIJKELDMNEO PQRSTUVWXYZA2| The four outskirts are not yet safe and quiet | A |
| I am old but have no peace | B |
| All my sons and grandsons died in battle | C |
| it's no use to keep my body alone in one piece | B |
| Throwing away my walking stick I walk out the door | D |
| The other soldiers are saddened pitying me | E |
| I'm lucky to still have all my teeth | F |
| but I regret the marrow has dried in my bones | G |
| Wearing a soldier's helmet and armor | H |
| I salute my officers before departure | H |
| My old wife is lying in the road weeping | I |
| The year is late and her clothes thin | J |
| Though I know at heart this is our death farewell | K |
| her shivering in cold still hurts me | E |
| I know I will never come back | L |
| yet hear her out when she says Eat more | D |
| The city wall around Earth Gate is very strong | M |
| and the Xingyuan ferry is hard for the enemy to cross | N |
| so the situation is different from the siege of Ye City | E |
| and I will have some time before I die | O |
| In life we part and we rejoin | P |
| we have no choice young or old | Q |
| I recall my young and strong days | R |
| and walk about with long sighs | S |
| War has spread through ten thousand countries | T |
| till beacon fires blaze from all the peaks | U |
| So many corpses that grass and trees stink like fish | V |
| rivers and plains dyed red with blood | W |
| Which land is the happy land | X |
| How can I linger here | Y |
| I abandon my thatched house | Z |
| and feel my liver and lungs collapse | A2 |
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