Analysis of How admirable
Matsuo Basho 1644 (Near Ueno) – 1694 (Osaka)
How admirable!
to see lightning and not think
life is fleeting.
Translated by Robert Hass
| Scheme | XXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11000 1110011 1110 0101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 98 |
| Words | 17 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 37 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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