Analysis of Sparrow singing
Yosa Buson 1716 (Settsu Province) – 1783
Sparrow singing--
its tiny mouth
open.
Translated by Robert Hass
Scheme | XXX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010 1101 10 0101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 77 |
Words | 12 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 1 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 26 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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