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

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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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