Analysis of Autumn moonlight

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

Autumn moonlight--
  a worm digs silently
    into the chestnut.

Translated by Robert Hass

Scheme XXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 101 011100 0101 0101101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 95
Words 15
Sentences 2
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 3, 1
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 35
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 03, 2023

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