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Re: TRANS: a haiku: retort

From:B Elliott Walker <umwalk05@...>
Date:Tuesday, April 18, 2000, 4:12
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
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> 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
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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