74. Minamoto no Toshi-yori Ason
Oh! Kwannon, Patron of this hill,The maid, for whom I pine,Is obstinate and wayward, likeThe gusts around thy shrine.What of those prayers of mine?
Words in this poem
- wayward a.
- Taking one's own way; disobedient; froward; perverse; willful. [OE. weiward, for aweiward, i. e., turned away. See Away, and -ward.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
74. Minamoto no Toshi-yori 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, 74. Minamoto no Toshi-yori Ason, in A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (1909), text of Internet Archive, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/hyakunin-isshu/74.html, id L28559.
Form and metre
74. Minamoto no Toshi-yori 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 hillx · pinea · likex · shrinea · minea
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oh! Kwannon, Patron of this hill, | 8 | ···/˘··· |
| The maid, for whom I pine, | 6 | ······ |
| Is obstinate and wayward, like | 7 | ·/˘·/˘· |
| The gusts around thy shrine. | 6 | ······ |
| What of those prayers of mine? | 6 | ······ |
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