Analysis of Don't Kill That Fly!
Kobayashi Issa 1763 (Shinano Province) – 1828 (Shinano Province)
Look, don't kill that fly!
It is making a prayer to you
By rubbing its hands and feet.
| Scheme | ABC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tercet |
| Metre | 11111 11100111 1101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 92 |
| Words | 20 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 65 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 06, 2023
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