Analysis of Oboete Iru (To Remember)
I know the neon red
of Shinjuku streets,
the shochu scent of izakaya nights,
and the white bright of standing
on Odaiba land.
Hot pink litters the
hollows of Harajuku
and decorates the kimono
wrapping my pearled, powdered skin.
I remember the liquid clear
of a shared drink surrounded
by sound at Maniac Love and
the soothing buckwheat shade of
soba under a lonely grass-roofed village.
I recall the color
of sliced melon in a paper room,
the calming midori of Aizu hills
that filled the bath, and the
unusual absence of cold, dark blackness
in the sky of Japan.
Scheme | ABCDEFDFGHIJKLMNOFPQ |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 110101 111 011111 0011110 111 11100 1011 010010 1011101 10100101 1011010 1111010 010111 1100101110 11010 111000101 0101111 110100 0101011110 001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 543 |
Words | 100 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 452 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 100 |
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Submitted on September 04, 2009
Modified on March 05, 2023
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