Analysis of Having Seen Them Long
Saigyo 1118 (Kyoto) – 1190
Having seen them long,
I hold the flowers so dear
That when they scatter
I find it all the more sad
To bid them my last farewell.
| Scheme | ABCDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tanka |
| Metre | 10111 1101011 11110 1111011 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 133 |
| Words | 29 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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