Re: TRANS: a haiku: retort
| From: | dirk elzinga <dirk.elzinga@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 17, 2000, 14:56 |
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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 /
> Spanish /whatever 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,
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> 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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