Analysis of chestnut rice
Masaoka Shiki 1867 (Matsuyama) – 1902 (Tokyo)
chestnut rice-
though a sick man,
still a glutton
| Scheme | ABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tercet |
| Metre | 11 1011 101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 57 |
| Words | 11 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 39 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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