Analysis of This old village

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



This old village--
not a single house
    without persimmon trees.

Translated by Robert Hass


Scheme XXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 1110 10101 0111 0101101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 101
Words 16
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) 36
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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