Analysis of A field of cotton

Matsuo Basho 1644 (Near Ueno) – 1694 (Osaka)



A field of cotton--
as if the moon
    had flowered.

Translated by Robert Hass


Scheme XXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 01110 1101 110 0101101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 87
Words 16
Sentences 2
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 3, 1
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 29
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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