Thought I was free
Saigyo 1118 (Kyoto) – 1190
Thought I was free
of passion, so this melancholy
comes as surprise:
a woodcock shoots up from the marsh
where autumn's twilight falls.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | AABCD |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 141 |
Words | 25 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 5 |
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