Analysis of The spring sea rising
Yosa Buson 1716 (Settsu Province) – 1783
The spring sea rising
and falling, rising
and falling all day.
Translated by Robert Hass
| Scheme | AAX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01110 01010 01011 0101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 101 |
| Words | 17 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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