66. Daisōjō Gyōson
In lonely solitude I dwell,No human face I see;And so we two must sympathize,Oh mountain cherry tree;I have no friend but thee.
Words in this poem
- dwell v. i.
- To delay; to linger. [OE. dwellen, dwelien, to err, linger, AS. dwellan to deceive, hinder, delay, dwelian to err; akin to Icel. dvelja to delay, tarry, Sw. dväljas to dwell, Dan. dv]
- sympathize v. t.
- To experience together.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
66. Daisōjō Gyōson 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, 66. Daisōjō Gyōson, in A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (1909), text of Internet Archive, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/hyakunin-isshu/66.html, id L28551.
Form and metre
66. Daisōjō Gyōson 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 dwellx · seea · sympathizex · treea · theea
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 |
|---|---|---|
| In lonely solitude I dwell, | 8 | ·/˘/˘··· |
| No human face I see; | 6 | ·/˘··· |
| And so we two must sympathize, | 8 | ·····/˘· |
| Oh mountain cherry tree; | 6 | ·/˘/˘· |
| I have no friend but thee. | 6 | ······ |
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