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Haiku

Haiku. Haiku. The content of haiku poems is primarily nature, but more recent forms of haikus are about anything the poet wants to write about Usually there are no similes or metaphors, nor are there many adjectives. The most common form is three lines with 5/7/5 syllable structure.

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Haiku

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  1. Haiku

  2. Haiku • The content of haiku poems is primarily nature, but more recent forms of haikus are about anything the poet wants to write about • Usually there are no similes or metaphors, nor are there many adjectives.

  3. The most common form is three lines with 5/7/5 syllable structure. • Does not have EXACTLY 17 syllables (12-15 syllables is okay) • The first and third lines are the same length and the middle one is a little longer.

  4. Examples The flap of a bat, drip drip of monsoon waters. Ancient image stares. Phil Wahl Behold the ego Set in glowing emptiness On the edge of time Noel Kaufmann

  5. Dave McCroskey • the morning paperharbinger of good and ill- - I step over it

  6. Shiki, Masaoka. (1867-1902). • After killinga spider, how lonely I feelin the cold of night! • For love and for hateI swat a fly and offer itto an ant.

  7. Textbook • Page 234

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