Collection of Six Haiku

Matsuo Basho 1644 (Near Ueno) – 1694 (Osaka)



Waking in the night;
the lamp is low,
the oil freezing.
  

It has rained enough
to turn the stubble on the field
black.

Winter rain
falls on the cow-shed;
a cock crows.

The leeks
newly washed white,-
how cold it is!

The sea darkens;
the voices of the wild ducks
are faintly white.

Ill on a journey;
my dreams wander
over a withered moor.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AXX XXX XXB XAX BXA XXX
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 344
Words 67
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3

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