Analysis of A weathered skeleton
Matsuo Basho 1644 (Near Ueno) – 1694 (Osaka)
A weathered skeleton
in windy fields of memory,
piercing like a knife
| Scheme | ABC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tercet |
| Metre | 010100 01011100 10101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 77 |
| Words | 14 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 57 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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