This is an analysis of Years Have Passed by Sugawara Takesue no Musume.
Years have passed and only sounds of waters have come to my ears,
To-day, indeed, I may even count the ripples around the fishing net.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ab cc de fgf cXd gXc cgg aXeb
- Stanza lengths: 2,2,2,3,3,3,3,4,
- Metre: 011110101011011 010111101010010101 010001010101001 10000110 010010111010011 101001011101 100110010 010101001101001 010111011001010 010010 1011110101 10111001001010 100101011100 1110010100 10101010110 1010010010 0101110101 0101 010101010 0100010101 10100101 10111
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 23
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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