Analysis of Tanka 08
Masaoki Shiki 1867 (Matsuyama, Ehime) – 1902 (Tokyo)
to every needle
of the needled pine it clings—
the pearl white dew,
forming but to scatter,
scattering but to form
| Scheme | ABCDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tanka |
| Metre | 110010 1010111 0111 101110 100111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 120 |
| Words | 23 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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