Meter (Verse)
Dec. 20th, 2008 08:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jheti
He's wringing his hands--
He's wringing his feet.
--Basho
The more common rearrangement of this is:
"Don't swat it!
The fly is rubbing
Its hands and legs."
It remains my favorite, regardless.
(I wonder what Japanese poets would make of English blank verse.)
