Analysis of Haiku. Not buying into it.
Doug Blair 1951 (London)
Poetry? Dinky messages.
Japanese.
Value seems more in the
Words left unsaid
Inferences drawn.
Curtain only partially
Pulled back for
Something beautiful.
But remember Fella.
Little people.
Little land space.
Little tenuous tightrope
For effecting cohabitation.
No larger messages
Since Emperor worship
Went down in flames.
Hirohito shuffling around
In housecoat and sneakers
Lamenting in unfinished
Sentences.
Ejaculating bits of thoughts.
Alone.
And here I stand in Canada.
Land scarcely inhabited.
Anglophone with vast terminology
Synonyms beyond counting.
Crazy variety.
Large it seems, in every respect.
But is it pompous, showy?
Using fifty dollar words.
Jabbering on
Way after one is finished?
Not hearing the bell?
To each his own.
I’m thinkin’.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHCHIJKALMNOPAQRCSFTFUFVWPXRY |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Tetractys (31%) |
Metre | 10010100 01 101100 1101 1001 1010100 111 10100 101010 1010 1011 101001 10100010 110100 110010 1101 011001 01010 0100010 100 1111 01 01110100 1100100 1110100 10110 100100 111010001 1111010 1010101 11 1101110 11001 1111 110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 758 |
Words | 136 |
Sentences | 24 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 35 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 613 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 112 |
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Written on February 19, 2023
Submitted by dougb.21370 on February 19, 2023
Modified by dougb.21370 on February 19, 2023
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