Analysis of In this world
Kobayashi Issa 1763 (Shinano Province) – 1828 (Shinano Province)
In this world
we walk on the roof of hell,
gazing at flowers.
Translated by Robert Hass
Scheme | XXX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011 1110111 10110 0101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 92 |
Words | 19 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 1 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 05, 2023
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