Analysis of under my tree-roof

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



under my tree-roof
slanting lines of april rain
separate to drops


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Haiku 
Tercet 
Metre 10111 1011101 1011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 71
Words 13
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 54
Words per stanza (avg) 11
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 05, 2023

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Matsuo Basho

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