Analysis of Straw sandal half sunk
Yosa Buson 1716 (Settsu Province) – 1783
Straw sandal half sunk
in an old pond
in the sleety snow.
Translated by Robert Hass
| Scheme | XXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011 0111 0011 0101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 92 |
| Words | 18 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 34 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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