Analysis of Hachi-gatsu



Monarch Butterflies
Dancing in the August sun
Summer's end is near


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Haiku 
Tercet 
Metre 110 1000101 10111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 64
Words 11
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 55
Words per stanza (avg) 11
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Submitted on October 12, 2009

Modified on March 05, 2023

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