"After the rain
bomb craters filled
with stars"
-John Brandi
Japan has its own metric in poetry to make writing even more challenging. According to Oxford Dictionary, Haiku is a "Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, usually unrhymed, traditionally evoking images of the natural world."
Haiku has a serious 5-7-5 syllabic measurement, but as Haiku became popular adaptation pieces of different countries, its restrictions in number of syllables has not been widely followed.
"Over the wintry
forest, winds howl in rage
with no leaves to blow."
- Natsume Soseki
A Haiku to easily remember Haiku...
"I am first with five
Then seven in the middle --
Five again to end." -Anonymous
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