Analysis of But for a woodpecker
Matsuo Basho 1644 (Near Ueno) – 1694 (Osaka)
But for a woodpecker
tapping at a post, no sound
at all in the house
| Scheme | ABC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tercet |
| Metre | 11010 1010111 11001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 76 |
| Words | 17 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 53 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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