Analysis of A bat flits
Yosa Buson 1716 (Settsu Province) – 1783
A bat flits
in moonlight
above the plum blossoms.
Translated by Robert Hass
| Scheme | AXA A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | ~Monorhyme |
| Metre | 011 01 010110 0101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 80 |
| Words | 15 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 31 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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