Analysis of Haiku 08

Masaoki Shiki 1867 (Matsuyama, Ehime) – 1902 (Tokyo)



I turn my back
on Buddha and face
the cool moon


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 1111 11001 011
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 53
Words 13
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 12
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 37
Words per stanza (avg) 11
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 10, 2023

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Masaoki Shiki

Masaoka Shiki, pen-name of Masaoka Noboru was a Japanese poet, author, and literary critic in Meiji period Japan. more…

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