Analysis of Haiku (1-5)
1
extended-family
photograph and there you stand,
arms folded, fuming
2
misidentified:
locust held responsible
for grasshopper's crime
3
sunny-weather friend
the specter ever present,
dragonfly shadow
4
ugly but lucky
the hunter failed to kill you,
deer dead of old age
5
a choking hazard
not for children under three,
the lethal game piece
Scheme | ABXX AXXX AXXX ABXX AXBX |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Tetractys (35%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 1 010100 100111 11010 1 0010 1010100 111 1 10101 0101010 11 1 10110 0101111 11111 1 01010 1110101 01011 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 392 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 55 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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