This is an analysis of Station 40, Chiriu: The Poet Ariwara No Narihira At Eight Bridges by Debora Greger.
What is sky but water, more water,
crossed by eight bridges?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaX aaa bXb
- Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,
- Metre: 101110110 11110 001010001011 110101001010 110101001010 1011011011 001001001 1011111101 10101100010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 9
Repeated words/phrases
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