Analysis of Won't you come and see
Matsuo Basho 1644 (Near Ueno) – 1694 (Osaka)
Won't you come and see
loneliness? Just one leaf
from the kiri tree.
Scheme | ABA |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Tercet |
Metre | 11101 100111 10101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 74 |
Words | 15 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 3 |
Lines Amount | 3 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 53 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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