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
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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Karl Constantine FOLKES

Retired educator of Jamaican ancestry with a lifelong interest in composing poetry dealing particularly with the metaphysics of self-reflection; completed a dissertation in Children’s Literature in 1991 at New York University entitled: An Analysis of Wilhelm Grimm’s ‘Liebe Mili’ (translated into English as “Dear Mili”), Employing Von Franzian Methodological Processes of Analytical Psychology. The subject of the dissertation concerned the process of Individuation. more…

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