Analysis of Don't imitate me
Matsuo Basho 1644 (Near Ueno) – 1694 (Osaka)
Don't imitate me;
it's as boring
as the two halves of a melon.
Translated by Robert Hass
| Scheme | XXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101 1110 10111010 0101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 101 |
| Words | 19 |
| 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) | 34 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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