Analysis of Bush warbler

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



Bush warbler:
shits on the rice cakes
    on the porch rail.

Translated by Robert Hass


Scheme XXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 110 11011 1011 0101101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 95
Words 17
Sentences 2
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 3, 1
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 33
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 15, 2023

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