Analysis of He's on the porch

Yosa Buson 1716 (Settsu Province) – 1783



He's on the porch,
to escape the wife and kids--
how hot it is!

Translated by Robert Hass


Scheme XXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 1101 1010101 1111 0101101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 94
Words 20
Sentences 2
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 3, 1
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 34
Words per stanza (avg) 9
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Yosa Buson

Yosa Buson or Yosa no Buson was a Japanese poet and painter of the Edo period. more…

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