Analysis of Haiku 06

Masaoki Shiki 1867 (Matsuyama, Ehime) – 1902 (Tokyo)



wheat sowing—
the mulberry trees
lift bunched branches


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 110 0101 1110
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 62
Words 10
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 46
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Masaoki Shiki

Masaoka Shiki, pen-name of Masaoka Noboru was a Japanese poet, author, and literary critic in Meiji period Japan. more…

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