
Metrum: tanka
The tanka, like the haiku, is borrowed from Japanese poetry. […] The tanka is a five-line poem, of five, seven, five, seven, and five syllables, respectively. The first three lines are expected to make a complete statement on which the last two comment; it is in effect, then, a haiku followed by an unrhymed, related couplet of fourteen syllables.
2019-09-18