Analysis of Haiku 12
Masaoki Shiki 1867 (Matsuyama, Ehime) – 1902 (Tokyo)
old garden—she empties
a hot-water bottle
under the moon
| Scheme | ABC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quinzaine Tercet |
| Metre | 110110 011010 1001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 64 |
| Words | 11 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 46 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 10, 2023
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