Analysis of The Narrow Road to the Deep North: Prologue
Matsuo Basho 1644 (Near Ueno) – 1694 (Osaka)
Behind this door
Now buried in deep grass
A different generation will celebrate
The Festival of Dolls.
Scheme | ABCD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111 110011 0100010110 010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 107 |
Words | 19 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 85 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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