I get it, but the "English version" you speak of is so often just one thought in seventeen syllables split into three lines at otherwise arbitrary points. There

I get it, but the "English version" you speak of is so often just one thought in seventeen syllables split into three lines at otherwise arbitrary points. There's no meaningful construction beyond fitting the thought into 17 syllables. If one is going to do the 5/7/5 style, make them actual phrases, rather than disjoint groups of words that only make sense in the whole.