Analysis of First Love
Shimazaki Toson 1872 (Nakatsugawa) – 1943 (Tokyo)
you had swept back your bangs for the first time
when I saw you under the apple tree
the flower-comb in your hair
I thought you yourself were a flower too.
you stretched out your pale white hand gently
giving me an apple:
like the ripening red of the autumn fruit
my first feeling of love
my sigh, without any awareness
touched your hair
the joys of love's offerings
drinking your love...
under a tree in the apple orchard
nature's narrow road
who left this token here?
your question gave me a piercing pleasure.
| Scheme | XABX AXXC XBXC XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111111011 1111100101 0101011 1110100101 111111110 101110 10100110101 111011 110110010 111 0111100 1011 1001001010 10101 111101 1101101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 505 |
| Words | 96 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 16, 2023
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