Analysis of First winter rain
Matsuo Basho 1644 (Near Ueno) – 1694 (Osaka)
First winter rain--
even the monkey
seems to want a raincoat.
Translated by Robert Hass
Scheme | XXX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101 10010 11101 0101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 96 |
Words | 17 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 1 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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