52. Fujiwara no Michi-nobu Ason
Although I know the gentle nightWill surely follow morn,Yet, when I'm wakened by the sun,Turn over, stretch and yawn—How I detest the dawn!
Words in this poem
- morn n.
- The first part of the day; the morning; -- used chiefly in poetry. [OE. morwen, morgen, AS. morgen; akin to D. morgen, OS. morgan, G. morgen, Icel. morginn, morgunn, Sw. morgon, Dan. morgen, Goth. maúrgins. Cf. Morrow, Morning.]
- detest v. t.
- To witness against; to denounce; to condemn. [L. detestare, detestatum, and detestari, to curse while calling a deity to witness, to execrate, detest; de + testari to be a witness, testify, testis a witness]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
52. Fujiwara no Michi-nobu Ason 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, 52. Fujiwara no Michi-nobu Ason, in A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (1909), text of Internet Archive, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/hyakunin-isshu/52.html, id L28537.
Form and metre
52. Fujiwara no Michi-nobu Ason 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 nightx · morna · sunx · yawna · dawna
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Although I know the gentle night | 8 | ·····/˘· |
| Will surely follow morn, | 6 | ·/˘/˘· |
| Yet, when I'm wakened by the sun, | 8 | ···/˘··· |
| Turn over, stretch and yawn— | 6 | ······ |
| How I detest the dawn! | 6 | ··˘/·· |
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