Analysis of A bath when you're born
Kobayashi Issa 1763 (Shinano Province) – 1828 (Shinano Province)
His death poem:
A bath when you're born,
a bath when you die,
how stupid.
Translated by Robert Hass
| Scheme | X XXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) |
| Metre | 1110 01111 01111 110 0101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 127 |
| Words | 21 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 25 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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