Analysis of What a strange thing
Kobayashi Issa 1763 (Shinano Province) – 1828 (Shinano Province)
What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.
Translated by Robert Hass
Scheme | XXX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011 1101 011010 0101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 89 |
Words | 16 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 1 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 01, 2023
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