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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Submitted by James_Kirkpatrick on December 16, 2023

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