Analysis of The Monk Saigyo
Saigyo 1118 (Kyoto) – 1190
Should I blame the moon
For bringing forth this sadness,
As if it pictured grief?
Lifting up my troubled face,
I regard it through my tears
| Scheme | ABCDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tanka |
| Metre | 11101 1101110 111101 1011101 1011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 143 |
| Words | 28 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 111 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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