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Pretty cool, it taught me how to write a Haiku: > Monkey eats apple > Monkey prefers banana > Suck it up monkey
by BasilPH 4y ago
Pretty cool, it taught me how to write a Haiku:
> Monkey eats apple
> Monkey prefers banana
> Suck it up monkey
- nathell 4y agoThat’d be a senryū. A proper haiku needs to have a kigo – a word hinting at a season – and kireji, a cut-word. (And English is on average terser than Japanese: I read somewhere that an approximate equivalent of Japanese 5-7-5 morae is 3-5-3 English syllables, so the syllable count requirement is not absolute. Even Bashō’s famous crow haiku かれ朶に烏のとまりけり秋の暮 is 19 morae rather than 17.)