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Definitions of haiku in various dictionaries:
noun - an epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines
A Japanese lyric verse form having three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables, traditionally invoking an aspect of nature or the seasons.
A poem written in this form.
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| 17-syllable poem |
| Eastern verse |
| Japanese verse |
| Poem with 17 syllables |
| Terse verse |
| Epigrammatic verse |
| Unrhymed poem |
| Three-line work |
| Three-line poem |
| Evocative three-line verse |
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| Haibun is a Japanese literary style that combines prose & this 3-line poetic form |
| April 17 / International this Day / 5-7-5...nice |
| In the 17th century the 17 syllables were mastered by Basho, who pioneered the "new style" of this poetry |
| Kobayashi Issa mastered this form; Robert Hass translated one as "Don't worry, spiders / I keep house / casually" |
| Modern poetry of Japan is called shi to distinguish it from tanka & this other traditional form with a 5-letter name |
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| a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world. |
| an epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines |
| a short Japanese poem with 17 syllables |
| A Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world. |
| A Japanese lyric verse form having three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables, traditionally invoking an aspect of nature or the seasons. |
| A poem written in this form. |
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Haiku () listen (plural haiku) is a very short Japanese poem with seventeen syllables and three verses. It is typically characterized by three qualities:* The essence of haiku is "cutting" (kiru). This is often represented by the juxtaposition of two images or ideas and a kireji ("cutting word") between them, a kind of verbal punctuation mark which signals the moment of separation and colours the manner in which the juxtaposed elements are related. * Traditional haiku consist of 17 on (also known as morae though often loosely translated as "syllables"), in three phrases of 5, 7, and 5 on, respectively. (An alternative form of haiku consists of 11 on in three phrases of 3, 5, and 3 on, respectively.) However, some authors are critical with the distribution of syllables, such as Vicente Haya or Jaime Lorente. * A kigo (seasonal reference), usually drawn from a saijiki, an extensive but defined list of such terms.Modern Japanese haiku (, gendai-haiku) are increasingly unlikely to follow th |