Analysis of Waka Impressions
Karl Constantine FOLKES 1935 (Portland)
How can it be overrating
The beauty of creating
A new thought now expressed
Affectionately possessed
Consumed by you, impressed?
The Waka art is courtly,
Lyrically and sportily.
It’s meter all the sweeter
With lines compactly neater
Than some boring grim repeater.
Haiku, Waka, Tanka, Renga,
Japanese words you should remember.
All majestic, all deistic,
All concisely short, poetic.
Divinely short, and still an epic.
| Scheme | AABBB CCDDD ADAEE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111010 0101010 011101 0100001 011101 011110 10001 1101010 11110 11101010 10111 01111010 101011 10101010 010101110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 423 |
| Words | 75 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
About this poem
In my effort at Waka poetry composition, I’ve discovered that it’s often prudent to be concise, something we can learn from Japanese poetry. Short, but sweet, can be a treat!
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Written on November 20, 2021
Submitted by karlcfolkes on November 20, 2021
Modified by karlcfolkes on September 14, 2022
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