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Originally Posted by RStar
Haiku is one of the most important form of traditional japanese poetry. Haiku is, today, a 17-syllable verse form consisting of three metrical units of 5, 7, and 5 syllables.
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Ah, but our American haikus are incorrect anyways. In Japanese it takes more syllables to say less, so they are actually quite a bit shorter. Some suggest that a correct English haiku would be 3, 5, and 3 syllables.
Wounded cat
dancing in the snow
Leo smiles
It's almost impossible to make conversational haikus in that format though. Although it does seem more poetic.