Analysis of Haiku Bird’s Eye View
Bees seeking nectar.
I stare, looking at them.
Ignorantly stung.
Newspaper crumpled.
“Bring it to me, baby son!”
“Paper old, daddy!”
Searching for glasses.
Oh, I am getting old.
It’s on my forehead!
Chipmunks digging holes.
Their bright eyes squint profoundly.
As I look at them.
The rain is falling.
It is really coming down.
The infant yells, “Wet!”
What is a hero?
It is the figure zero.
Guarding all numbers.
The leaves have long gone.
Winter has come upon us.
My bones are brittle.
Scheme | XAX XXB XXX XBA XXX CCX XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010 111011 11 1010 1111101 10110 10110 111101 11110 1101 1111010 11111 01110 1110101 01011 11010 1101010 10110 01111 1011011 11110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 506 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 21 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 53 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
About this poem
I am fascinated about the haiku Japanese poetic form which, while new to me, appears like utterances of a Taoist sage, making observations and commenting expressively without rendering an opinion, providing a sort of aerial bird’s eye view perspective that is panoramic and unbiased, hence the title of these verses, “Haiku Bird’s Eye View.”
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Written on December 04, 2021
Submitted by karlcfolkes on December 04, 2021
Modified on April 26, 2023
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