Analysis of Haiku (41-45)



41
the sanctuary
there reverberates the song:
Johnny, wood and green

42
the lids the lash curls
waking up, his spangled eyes
the floret blue bulbs

43
solitary soul,
an erstwhile easy weeper,
now he lives with her

44
gone on flitting wings
from birth to scythe in seconds,
colors' quiet tiers

45
errands' blistered feet
soaking in the elm-banked stream,
sore-legged Mercury


Scheme ABXX AXXX AXBX AXXX AXXB
Poetic Form Tetractys  (30%)
Etheree  (20%)
Metre 1 0100 101001 10101 1 01011 1011101 0111 1 1001 11101 11110 1 11101 1111010 10101 1 10101 1000111 110100
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 425
Words 120
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 60
Words per stanza (avg) 13
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Submitted by James_Kirkpatrick on December 16, 2023

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