Analysis of Sad Moonlit Night
Sakutaro Hagiwara 1886 (Maebashi) – 1942 (Tokyo)
Drat that snatch-thief dog,
He howls at the moon from the rotting pier.
When the soul pricks up its ears,
It hears the shrill girls choiring,
Choiring
With their gloomy voices,
By the somber stone wall out at the pier.
Why is it always this way
with me?
Listen, you dog, you.
Tell me, you pale-blue, unhappy dog, you.
| Scheme | ABXAAXB XXCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111 1110110101 1011111 110111 1 111010 1010111101 111111 11 10111 1111101011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 315 |
| Words | 61 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 122 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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