This is an analysis of the poem Hokku Poems In Four Seasons that begins with:
Spring
The year's first poem done, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcd eaf g gad gXh iaa bja kld mak nna ga dag onp qg bXd aaj p ccp Xp oge X dag lp bo lgd ilr gdb lhq gXd bgp m ebf lg bgp e oje nkd rq mcd ck p kpi dn abp ndl kaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,3,1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,2,3,3,2,3,3,1,3,2,3,1,3,2,2,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,3,2,3,1,3,3,2,3,2,1,3,2,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01 011101 011100 01010 10101011 0100100 11001 101011 1001 010101010 010101 10101 01101100 10010 0111 00110 001001 000100 011101 1010001 0110101 001001010 0111 011 10100 0011110 1001 010101 0011001 0111101 10001001 1011 11010 01011 101011 10101111 010010010 111111 1101110 111 01011011 010100 111010 10111010 11011 10 010100 001010010 01010010 10010101 1110111010 0101 1001011010 1100 101110010 01010101 110 010011 010100010 10100110 101001 1100100111 0111010 01010100 0011 01011 1001100 10100001010 101 1001001 0100110 111 1010010 010101 1011 100100100 011111 1010010 01011 010010 1010101 11001 110110 1011110 0101100101 100110 1011011 0101010101 010010 10 0101001 101010111 0011 1111 111101 01011 01001110001010 00101 10011 101010 111 010010 010110110101 10 111101 111010010 1011 10111100101 0010101 011010 100011 1110010 11101 0100010 01011 0111 0110010 0010
- Amount of stanzas: 51
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 58
- Average number of words per stanza: 10
- Amount of lines: 119
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; days is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word this is repeated.
The author used the same words springtime, at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words spring, at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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