Analysis of Ducks bobbing on the water
Kobayashi Issa 1763 (Shinano Province) – 1828 (Shinano Province)
Ducks bobbing on the water--
are they also, tonight,
hoping to get lucky?
Translated by Robert Hass
| Scheme | XXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101010 111001 101110 0101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 112 |
| Words | 19 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 39 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 22, 2023
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