2. Jitō Tennō
The spring has gone, the summer's come,And I can just descryThe peak of Ama-no-kagu,Where angels of the skySpread their white robes to dry.
Words in this poem
- descry
- , Discovery or view, as of an army seen at a distance.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
2. Jitō Tennō is in the public domain. This text is taken from A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (the Hyaku-nin-isshiu), Internet Archive, the William N. Porter translation; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Various, 2. Jitō Tennō, in A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (1909), text of Internet Archive, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/hyakunin-isshu/2.html, id L28487.
Form and metre
2. Jitō Tennō is 5 lines in a single stanza. It rhymes xaxaa. This poem did not settle on a metre of its own; the book it comes from is in iambic trimeter. Rhymes that have moved apart since the poem was written: day / roof, me / tail, peak / shore, call / leaves, know / see and 92 more.
See other poems in iambic trimeter.
Measured by Laurel's pipeline, not copied from a handbook: how stress and metre are counted, how rhyme is lettered, how a drifted rhyme is found. Where the dictionary cannot confirm a rhyme the letter is withheld, not guessed.
Rhyme words, stanza by stanza
The word that ends each line, lettered by the rhyme it makes; a dash is a line whose rhyme the dictionary could not confirm.
- 1 xaxaa comex · descrya · kagux · skya · drya
Scansion, line by line
Each line with its syllable count and the stresses the words themselves fix: / stressed, ˘ unstressed, · a syllable the word leaves free and the metre decides. Read against iambic trimeter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| The spring has gone, the summer's come, | 8 | ·····/˘· |
| And I can just descry | 6 | ····˘/ |
| The peak of Ama-no-kagu, | 8 | ······/˘ |
| Where angels of the sky | 6 | ·/˘··· |
| Spread their white robes to dry. | 6 | ······ |
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