Analysis of Winter downpour

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



Winter downpour -
even the monkey
needs a raincoat.


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 1010 10010 101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 59
Words 11
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 14
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 41
Words per stanza (avg) 9
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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