Analysis of You Stop To Point At The Moon In The Sky
Taigu Ryokan 1758 – 1831
You stop to point at the moon in the sky,
but the finger's blind unless the moon is shining.
One moon, one careless finger pointing --
are these two things or one?
The question is a pointer guiding
a novice from ignorance thick as fog.
Look deeper. The mystery calls and calls:
No moon, no finger -- nothing there at all.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111101001 10110101110 111101010 111111 010101010 0101100111 1100100101 1111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 322 |
Words | 63 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 62 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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