Analysis of Collection of Six Haiku
Matsuo Basho 1644 (Near Ueno) – 1694 (Osaka)
Waking in the night;
the lamp is low,
the oil freezing.
It has rained enough
to turn the stubble on the field
black.
Winter rain
falls on the cow-shed;
a cock crows.
The leeks
newly washed white,-
how cold it is!
The sea darkens;
the voices of the wild ducks
are faintly white.
Ill on a journey;
my dreams wander
over a withered moor.
| Scheme | AXX XXX XXB XAX BXA XXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10001 0111 0110 11101 11010101 1 101 11011 011 01 1011 1111 011 0101011 1101 11010 1110 100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 344 |
| Words | 67 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 43 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 10, 2023
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