Analysis of bush-clover flowers

Matsuo Basho 1644 (Near Ueno) – 1694 (Osaka)



bush-clover flowers —
they sway but do not drop
their beads of dew


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 11010 111111 1111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 74
Words 15
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 52
Words per stanza (avg) 13
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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