Analysis of Tanka 06
Masaoki Shiki 1867 (Matsuyama, Ehime) – 1902 (Tokyo)
the bucket's water
poured out and gone,
drop by drop
dew drips like pearls
from the autumn flowers
| Scheme | ABCDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (60%) Tanka (40%) Lanturne (40%) |
| Metre | 0110 1101 111 1111 101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 102 |
| Words | 20 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 79 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 11, 2023
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