Analysis of Waka Poetry Chiming
Voices chanting sutras,
Hymnic lyrical sutras.
Other voices weaving,
Weaving Kama sutras.
Cherry blossoms ripening,
Youthful eyes — delighting.
Monks at holy shrines;
Bowing.
Rosaries prayerfully…
Signing…
Geisha maids performing.
Art of Gei, in dancing.
Poet’s voice now chiming…
Waka poetry rhyming.
Hymnic sutras chanting.
Heavenly voices rhyming.
Harp and fife now joining.
Flute in tuneful piping.
Monks once more now bowing.
Geisha maidens dancing.
Geisha girls performing.
Art of Gei in dancing.
Poet’s voice now chiming.
Waka poetry chiming.
Cherry blossoms ripening.
Youthful eyes — delighting.
Monks at holy shrines
Bowing.
Bowing, bowing, bowing.
Bowing, bowing, bowing.
Geisha maidens dancing.
Dancing, dancing, dancing.
Voices chanting sutras.
Chanting, chanting, chanting.
Waka poetry chiming.
Chiming, chiming, chiming.
Waka poetry chiming.
Chiming, chiming, chiming.
Waka poetry chiming.
Chiming, chiming, chiming.
| Scheme | Aaba BBAB xbbB Bbbb bbbB bBBB BBAB BBBb AbBB BBBB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) Etheree (40%) Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 10101 11001 101010 10101 1010100 101010 11101 10 1001 10 101010 111010 10111 110010 1110 1001010 101110 101010 111110 101010 101010 111010 10111 11001 1010100 101010 11101 10 101010 101010 101010 101010 10101 101010 11001 111 11001 111 11001 111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 953 |
| Words | 172 |
| Sentences | 32 |
| Stanzas | 10 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 40 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 75 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
About this poem
This Waka poetry was composed to cast attention to how life, in its fullest expression of Tao, while striving towards an individuated ‘absolute,’ grounds all activities of nature with the experience of dualities as the course of life. Upon careful observation, we are left to conclude that human life, phenomenologically, is an expression of the mundane and the sublime, the worldly and the spiritual, the sacred and the profane — all blending harmoniously and lyrically: the light and the heavy, the spiritual and the material, the ‘raw’ and the ‘cooked. ’ We are, all of us, cast in the mold of oppositions. In our most absolute state of completion, we are , all of us, nature’s yin/yang compositions of a Dr. Jekyll and a Mr. Hyde. more »
Written on November 20, 2021
Submitted by karlcfolkes on November 20, 2021
Modified by karlcfolkes on April 26, 2023
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