Awaiting Spring([jué Jù]) Poem by Perdita Young (Hanna Wang)

九言绝句 盼春

今夜清风拂过万千梢，
簌簌细雨蒙蒙润叶苞。
掩卷静听屋檐珠翠坠，
细数红梅盼遍访荒郊。

Awaiting Spring

Tonight the breeze rustles thousand of branches,
Raindrops stream down to moisten the budding leaves;
All books closed, I hear pearls patter from the eaves,
While count paint'd petals, craving for the suburbs.

Dec.21th,2016.
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Jué Jù[绝句]: A poem of four lines, each containing of five or seven characters（in this case nine）with a strict tonal pattern and rhyme scheme. Something is lost in its English translation concerning the form.