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Tanka 03

Masaoki Shiki 1867 (Matsuyama, Ehime) – 1902 (Tokyo)

The man
I used to meet in the mirror
is no more.
Now I see a wasted face.
It dribbles tears.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCDE
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 96
Words 23
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 5
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Masaoki Shiki

Masaoka Shiki, pen-name of Masaoka Noboru was a Japanese poet, author, and literary critic in Meiji period Japan. more…

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