5. Saru Maru Taiu
I hear the stag's pathetic callFar up the mountain side,While tramping o'er the maple leavesWind-scattered far and wideThis sad, sad autumn tide.
Words in this poem
- pathetic a.
- Expressing or showing anger; passionate. [L. patheticus, Gr. pathétique. See Pathos.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
5. Saru Maru Taiu 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, 5. Saru Maru Taiu, in A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (1909), text of Internet Archive, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/hyakunin-isshu/5.html, id L28490.
Form and metre
5. Saru Maru Taiu 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.
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 callx · sidea · leavesx · widea · tidea
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 |
|---|---|---|
| I hear the stag's pathetic call | 8 | ····˘/˘· |
| Far up the mountain side, | 6 | ···/˘· |
| While tramping o'er the maple leaves | 8 | ·/˘··/˘· |
| Wind-scattered far and wide | 6 | ·/˘··· |
| This sad, sad autumn tide. | 6 | ···/˘· |
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