Analysis of A Tanka Poet’s Confession
I am good at it.
Intellectual rubbish.
Don’t ever quote me.
Unseemly Tanka poet.
Besmirched by lines not rhyming.
| Scheme | ABCDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tanka |
| Metre | 11111 010010 11011 010110 111110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 115 |
| Words | 23 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
About this poem
I like the syllogistic power of a five-line Tanka poem, whose internal logic seems to be ever postponed, defaced, or at least delayed in my compositions.
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Written on May 13, 2022
Submitted by karlcfolkes on May 13, 2022
Modified on March 10, 2023
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