Opening the poem, the poet painted us a picture of the alleys in the south of the Yangtze River during the rainy season: between buildings with white walls and black tiles, the alleys are long and tortuous; It is the rainy season, the sky is overcast and the rain keeps falling. The alley is empty, only the poet walks alone in the rainy lane; And his vacillating gait clearly reveals his inner loneliness and anguish. In such a gloomy and lonely environment, he had a vague and painful hope in his heart: "I hope to meet a girl as sad as lilac." The girl was endowed with beautiful and sad colors by the poet. Although she is "color like cloves and fragrance like cloves", she is also "worried like cloves".
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