Analysis of Tanka 09
Masaoki Shiki 1867 (Matsuyama, Ehime) – 1902 (Tokyo)
two feet tall,
the crimson-budded roses,
their young thorns
tender in
the soft spring rain
| Scheme | ABCDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (60%) Lanturne (40%) Tanka (20%) |
| Metre | 111 010110 111 100 0111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 94 |
| Words | 17 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 73 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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