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Poets and Poetry, Nature, Forms, and Laws of Poetry


Nature, Forms, and Laws of Poetry

What is Haiku?

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Haiku is a very interesting type of poem, invented by the Japanese long, long ago. The poem has a prescription, or formula, by which it must be written. If you do not follow the formula, you do not have a haiku.

Here it is, in the form of a haiku:
First five syllables
Second seven syllables
Third five syllables

What my little haiku means is that each line has a specific number of syllables, or beats. Count them.

The other important factor is that the poem should be about nature or a simple, yet natural, subject. Plum blossoms, spring, wind, rain, shadows: these are the topics of real haiku. Look in a poetry anthology for some ideas.

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