Analysis of a cuckoo cries
Matsuo Basho 1644 (Near Ueno) – 1694 (Osaka)
a cuckoo cries
and through a thicket of bamboo
the late moon shines
| Scheme | ABC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tercet |
| Metre | 011 01010101 0111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 73 |
| Words | 15 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 55 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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