Analysis of Butterflies Emerge (Haiku)
Edwin Tanguma 1966 (CA)
Butterflies Emerge (Haiku)
Caterpillars spin
Beautiful silken cocoons;
Butterflies emerge.
Edwin Tanguma “In a far distant past…”
| Scheme | X XXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) |
| Metre | 100110 1001 1001001 1001 10010001101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 142 |
| Words | 22 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
About this poem
Inspired by Basho “long long ago”…Pay no attention to the date I posted below…I pulled it from a hat…
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