Xu Zhimo's poem In the Mountains was written in April 193 1 and published in the second issue of Poetry Magazine on April 30+0. It is a lyric poem in English ballad style, with quatrains and abab rhyme. Wordsworth's "Lucy Poems" are typical of this style, and we will choose one of them, "She lives in a lonely place" as an example to illustrate this point. This poem is concise in form. The first and third acts of each paragraph are iambic four-step steps, and the second and fourth acts are iambic three-step steps. The rhyming order is abab.
This new poem was written by Xu Zhimo to Lin in the last year of his life. At that time, Liang Sicheng's wife Lin was recovering from illness in Xiangshan. Xu Zhimo went to visit her and saw her former lover haggard. After returning to my apartment, in the silence of the middle of the night, I wrote this well-known lyric poem, expressing the poet's subtle feelings for his former lovers and friends today, which transcends friendship and is different from love.