Analysis of The old man

Yosa Buson 1716 (Settsu Province) – 1783



The old man
cutting barley--
bent like a sickle.

Translated by Robert Hass


Scheme XXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 011 1010 11010 0101101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 79
Words 15
Sentences 2
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 3, 1
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 30
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 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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