Re: TRANS: a haiku: retort

On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, B Elliott Walker wrote:

> ok. to those who are going to nitpick about how haiku 'has to has to has
to
> has to' be of 5/7/5 structure, let me tell you it MOST CERTAINLY DOES NOT.
> just go to your local library and pick up an anothology of modern English
/
> haiku poetry, and they usually go on (at great length)
> that haikus DO NOT have to be 5/7/5 or even consist of 3 lines to be
> considered an example of the genre.
>
> my 2 inflammatoy cents,
>
> byron
In Japanese, haiku are not constructed according to syllable
count at all, but according to mora count. So everyone who's
arguing about how many syllables are in a haiku, you're all
wrong. :-)

Dirk

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
isn't it a good thing, then, that i didn't mention Japanese at all? i only
Speak of English here (and perhaps others, i know nothing of
Spanich/French/German/Lithuanian/Evenki etc, haiku