Analysis of Ten tanka poems
Ram Krishna Singh 1950 (Varanasi)
1
Love’s spirit descends
and melds into her body
lending it new life:
I’m amazed how the unknown
becomes one with her beauty
2
A tidal wave
touches the shore to wipe
my naked footprints
and leaves behind some shells
pebbles and memories
3
Tears dry up
leaving no marks where her pain
ends and mine begins
on the face makeup damps
with aching sweat and cold sigh
4
A serpent twists
its head to face a dragon
on her shoulder:
their tails on breast in water
swirl to cleanse my kiss on skin
5
Her smile
with the whiff of sandal
makes love livelier:
I search Tao
in the wind’s flavor
6
A happier image
with salubrious top
turns rapturous
as she tamps her love
with watery lipstick
7
After a tiff
lying under the same blanket
two of us stare
the peeping moon and turn
with glee to each other
8
The mirror swallowed
my footprints on the shore
I couldn’t blame the waves
the geese kept flying over the head
the shadows kept moving afar
9
Shaped like a bird
a drop of water lands
on her breast:
my breath jumps to kiss it
before her pelvic flick
10
Dreams puzzling
smallness of waking
I can’t live
the child’s circumcision
promise of happiness
| Scheme | AXBXXB AXXXXX AXXXXX AXCDDX AXXDXD AXXEXF AXXXXD AXXXXX AXXXXF AGGXCE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (32%) Etheree (30%) |
| Metre | 1 11001 0101010 10111 1011001 0111010 1 0101 100111 1101 010111 100100 1 111 1011101 10101 10111 1101011 1 0101 1111010 1010 1111010 1111111 1 01 101110 11100 111 00110 1 010010 111 1100 11101 11001 1 1001 10100110 1111 010101 111110 1 01010 11101 11101 011101001 0111001 1 1101 011101 101 111111 010101 1 1100 10110 111 01010 101100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 1,089 |
| Words | 216 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 10 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 60 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on September 14, 2017
Modified on March 14, 2023
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