This is an analysis of The Spring Sea Rising by Yosa Buson.

The spring sea rising
and falling, rising…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaX X
  • Stanza lengths: 3,1,
  • Metre: 001110 11010 11011 0101101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 5

Anaphora

and

Epiphora

rising