The colorful artistic expressions in Li Sao, such as metaphor, symbol, narration, fantasy and fiction, create a rich image system. The most outstanding artistic feature of Li Sao is to creatively develop the simple metaphor of The Book of Songs into a rich image system. Li Sao creatively uses three image group: one is image group. Second, the flower and bird image group. The third is the myth of image group.
Li Sao is also innovative and pioneering in poetic language and form. It absorbed the nutrition of Chu Ci and pre-Qin prose, broke the four-word form of The Book of Songs, and created a basic neat, uneven, flexible and free language form. The language of Lisao is refined and colorful, and it is expressive, and it uses dialects, function words, disyllabic words and rhymes.