Analysis of Old well

Yosa Buson 1716 (Settsu Province) – 1783



Old well,
a fish leaps--
    dark sound.

Translated by Robert Hass


Scheme XXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 11 011 11 0101101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 71
Words 13
Sentences 2
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 3, 1
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 12
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 24
Words per stanza (avg) 6
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 09, 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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