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やどちかく　梅の花うゑへし　あぢきなく　松人のかに　あやまたれけり

Translation

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Near my house / the plum trees that I planted / useless / I mistake them (5) / for the scent of the one I await (4).

やど: This can be used as both "house" and "garden", although the meanings may overlap here since the image is simply the plum trees near the poet's house. Takeoka notes that やど for "house" seems to be a poetic word since いへ rarely occurs in poetry.

梅の花うゑし: The RT form at the end is used to nominalize the clause -- "the plum trees that I planted" or "the fact that I planted the plum trees."

あぢきなく: The etymology and exact meaning of this word are uncertain, but both Takeoka and Katagiri agree with Template:Denju that it indicates something that was done for a particular purpose but that is was in vain. It would seem to be acting adverbially on the next predicate, but Katagiri interprets it as an interjection applying to the whole poem; perhaps with a feeling like "Alas!" Several medieval commentaries note that this word was no longer acceptable to use in poetry at the time.

松人: Teika often uses 松 to write the word "wait" even when there is no play on words (as there is not here).

As with the previous poem, the commentators vacillate on whether we should read this as a love meaning or not.