Analysis of Awake at night
Matsuo Basho 1644 (Near Ueno) – 1694 (Osaka)
Awake at night--
the sound of the water jar
cracking in the cold.
Translated by Robert Hass
| Scheme | XXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0111 0110101 10001 0101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 100 |
| Words | 19 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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