Analysis of Water-bailing
Ho Xuan Huong 1772 (Nghe An) – 1822
Not a drop of rain for this dry heat!
Come, girls, let's go bail water.
Let's drag our delta-shaped buckets to that huge square field
where our bodies can pulse to the water's lapping.
Crouched, straining to catch each trickle from the rockheads,
our buttocks tighten with such labor.
Indeed, we work so hard we forget the effort
and, taking a final stance to bend and lift -
you part your legs a second, and it's filled.
Scheme | ABCDEBFGH |
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Poetic Form | Nonet (22%) |
Metre | 101111111 1111110 11101011011111 1101011101010 11011110101 1010101110 011111101010 01001011101 1111010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 429 |
Words | 79 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 9 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 327 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 77 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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