Analysis of Japanese Quartet
NIGHT SCENE (Haiku)
The moon sets her sails
to navigate the night sky
with great majesty
Stars twinkle and shine
in a deep velvet backdrop
as dreamers dream on
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MAN IN THE MOON (Dodoitsu)
The man in the moon told me
heaven is often just a
heartbeat away for dreamers
who knock on love's door
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YOUR SMILE (Senryu)
Warm and welcoming —
your smile brightens up my day
like the summer sun
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OUR LOVE (Tanka)
Seasons come and go
but our love remains constant —
no matter the clime
our love will travel with us
wherever we choose to go
Copyright © Robert Haigh 2017
Scheme | A BXC XXX B CXXX X XDX A EXXXE D |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110 01101 110011 11100 11001 001101 11011 1 10011 0100111 1011010 101110 11111 1 111 10100 1110111 10101 1 1011 10101 11010110 11001 10111011 0101111 10101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 603 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 3, 3, 1, 1, 4, 1, 1, 3, 1, 1, 5, 1 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 34 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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