Analysis of Ploughing the land

Yosa Buson 1716 (Settsu Province) – 1783



Ploughing the land--
not even a bird singing
in the mountain's shadow.

Translated by Robert Hass


Scheme XXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 101 1100110 00101 0101101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 105
Words 18
Sentences 2
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 3, 1
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 39
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Yosa Buson

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