Analysis of light of the moon

Yosa Buson 1716 (Settsu Province) – 1783



light of the moon
moves west - flowers' shadows
creep eastward


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 1101 11101 110
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 68
Words 13
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 50
Words per stanza (avg) 11
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 13, 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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