Analysis of Windy fall
Kobayashi Issa 1763 (Shinano Province) – 1828 (Shinano Province)
At my daughter's grave, thirty days
after her death:
Windy fall--
these are the scarlet flowers
she liked to pick.
Translated by Robert Hass
| Scheme | XX XXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101101 1001 101 1101010 1111 0101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 167 |
| Words | 26 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| 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 March 05, 2023
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