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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 58. Chapters: Elegiac couplet, Ballad, Villanelle, Pantoum, Heroic couplet, Ode, Waka, Clerihew, Free verse, Stanza, Quatorzain, Strophe, Antistrophe, Epode, Elegy, Ghazal, Blank verse, Saturnian, Sijo, Stichomythia, Hainteny, Tanka prose, Fixed verse, Decima, L c bat, Chastushka, Envoi, Gogy ka, Bouts-Rimes, Rhyme royal, Carmen, Cumulative tale, Heroic verse, Chant royal, Pantun, Cumulative song, Tanaga, Skolion, Oriki, Paradelle, Blason, Anacreontics, Song That Luc Bat, Copla, Cobla, Roundel, Sestet, Hudibrastic, Terzanelle, Olonkho, Slavic antithesis, Balliol rhyme, Ragale, Palinode, Sisindiran, Tweede Asem, Virelai nouveau, Pentina, Sevenling, Synchysis, Antilabe, Bref double, Syair, Recueillement, Thanbauk, Canto, Arlabecca, Kantan Chamorrita, Quaternion, Monostich, Poetic closure, Action, Pathya Vat, Silva, Humdrum and Harum-Scarum, Yadu, Quinzaine, Poetic Meter and Poetic Form, Dodoitsu, Balwo, Nonnet, Stichic, Closed form, Tristich. Excerpt: Waka (, literally "Japanese poem") or Yamato uta is a genre of classical Japanese verse and one of the major genres of Japanese literature. The term was coined during the Heian period, and was used to distinguish Japanese-language poetry from kanshi (poetry written in Chinese by Japanese poets), and later from renga. The term waka originally encompassed a number of differing forms, principally tanka (, "short poem") and ch ka (, "long poem"), but also including bussokusekika, sed ka (, "memorized poem") and katauta (, "poem fragment"). These last three forms, however, fell into disuse at the beginning of the Heian period, and ch ka vanished soon afterwards. Thus, the term waka came in time to refer only to tanka. Japanese poet and critic Masaoka Shiki created the term tanka in the early twentieth century for his statement that waka should be renewed and modernized. Until th...
