Analysis of Spring rain

Yosa Buson 1716 (Settsu Province) – 1783



Spring rain:
telling stories,
a straw coat and umbrella walk past


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 11 1010 011001011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 71
Words 13
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 53
Words per stanza (avg) 11
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 14, 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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