Hokku Poems In Four Seasons Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCD EAF G HAI HJK KAA BLA MNO PAQ RRA SA OAT UVW XY ZA2B2 AAC2 W D2CW E2W F2G2H2 K I2AJ2 NW ZK NK2O E2NU TL2B M2KX TBN2 BJ2W O2 P2BQ2 R2K2 BS2W B UT2P2 U2V2O UW2 X2Y2Z2 D2A3 W B3WK C3V ABW VB2D3 E3AASpring | A |
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The year's first poem done | B |
with smug self confidence | C |
a haikai poet | D |
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Longer has become the daytime | E |
a pheasant is fluttering | A |
down onto the bridge | F |
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Yearning for the Bygones | G |
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Lengthening days | H |
accumulating and recalling | A |
the days of distant past | I |
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Slowly passing days | H |
with an echo heard here in a | J |
corner of Kyoto | K |
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The white elbow | K |
of a priest dozing | A |
in the dusk of spring | A |
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Into a nobleman | B |
a fox has changed himself | L |
early evening of spring | A |
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The light on a candle stand | M |
is transferred to another candle | N |
spring twilight | O |
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A short nap | P |
then awakening | A |
this spring day has darkened | Q |
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Who is it for | R |
this pillow on the floor | R |
in the twilight of spring | A |
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The big gateway's heavy doors | S |
standing in the dusk of spring | A |
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Hazy moonlight | O |
someone is standing | A |
among the pear trees | T |
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Blossoms on the pear tree | U |
lighten by the moonlight and there | V |
a woman is reading a letter | W |
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Springtime rain almost dark | X |
and yet today still lingers | Y |
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Springtime rain | Z |
a little shell on a small beach | A2 |
enough to moisten it | B2 |
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Springtime rain is falling | A |
as a child's rag ball is soaking | A |
wet on the house roof | C2 |
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Summer | W |
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Within the quietness | D2 |
of a lull in visitors' absence | C |
appears the peony flower | W |
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Peony having scattered two | E2 |
or three petals lie on one another | W |
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The rain of May | F2 |
facing toward the big river houses | G2 |
just two of them | H2 |
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At a Place Called Kaya in Tanba | K |
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A summer river being crossed | I2 |
how pleasing | A |
with sandals in my hands | J2 |
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The mountain stonecutter's chisel | N |
being cooled in the clear water | W |
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Grasses wet in the rain | Z |
just after the festival cart passed by | K |
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To my eyes how delightful | N |
the fan of my beloved is | K2 |
in complete white | O |
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A flying cuckoo | E2 |
over the Heian capital | N |
goes diagonally across the city | U |
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Evening breeze | T |
water is slapping against | L2 |
the legs of a blue heron | B |
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An old well | M2 |
jumping at a mosquito | K |
the fish's sound is dark | X |
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Young bamboo trees | T |
at Hashimoto the courtesan | B |
is she still there or not | N2 |
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After having been fallen | B |
its image still stands | J2 |
the peony flower | W |
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Stepping on the Eastern Slope | O2 |
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Wild roses in bloom | P2 |
so like a pathway in | B |
or toward my home village | Q2 |
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With sorrow while coming upon the hill | R2 |
flowering wild roses | K2 |
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Summer night ending so soon | B |
with on the river shallows still remains | S2 |
the moon in a sliver | W |
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Autumn | B |
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It penetrates into me | U |
stepping on the comb of my gone wife | T2 |
in the bedroom | P2 |
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More than last year | U2 |
I now feel solitude | V2 |
this autumn twilight | O |
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This being alone may even be a kind of happy | U |
in the autumn dusk | W2 |
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Moon in the sky's top | X2 |
clearly passes through this | Y2 |
poor town street | Z2 |
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This feeling of sadness | D2 |
a fishing string being blown by the autumn wind | A3 |
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Winter | W |
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Let myself go to bed | B3 |
New Year's Day is only a matter | W |
for tomorrow | K |
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Camphor tree roots are quietly getting wet | C3 |
in the winter rainy air | V |
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A handsaw is sounding | A |
as if from a poor one | B |
at midnight in this winter | W |
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Old man's love affair | V |
in trying to forget it | B2 |
a winter rainfall | D3 |
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In an old pond | E3 |
a straw sandal is sinking | A |
it is sleeting | A |
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