Japanese poetic form that is made up of 5 lines with a 5-7-5-7-7 syllable count. Haiku derives from tanka.
(short poem) A lyric poem with the typical form five-seven-five-seven-seven onji (see ji-amari). In many ways equivalent to the sonnet in the West, the tanka was the primary genre of Japanese poetry from Manyoshu times through about the fourteenth century, and still flourishes. Now also called waka or uta.
a form of Japanese poetry; the 1st and 3rd lines have five syllables and the 2nd, 4th, and 5th have seven syllables
a Japanese poem of thirty-one syllables
an interesting type of poetry, and Sedoka is one of the two forms that can actually be written down (Choka is the other) but it isn't easy
The classic form of Japanese poetry with five unrhymed lines of five, seven, five, seven, and seven syllables to produce a concentrated essence of a single event, image or mood. (See also Haiku, Senryu)
A Japanese poem of five lines, the first and third composed of five syllables and the rest of seven.
Small Japanese poem consisting of exactly 31 syllables. A tanka is a haiku with two further lines of seven syllables added. Tanka, like haiku, work on the principle that less is more e.g. Today, clumps of cow Parsley (cut back by the white Suited strimmer-man) Fall onto your surface and Are carried away downstream. See more of my River Diary haiku and tanka. See also Japanese forms.