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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: 29. Chapters: Limerick, Haiku, Sonnet, Villanelle, Rhyme, Cinquain, Sestina, Quatrain, Stanza, Tercet, Spenserian stanza, Haiku in English, Decasyllabic quatrain, Rhyme scheme, Shayari, Terza rima, Ottava rima, The Road Not Taken, Line, Anu ubh, Line break, Rhyme royal, Double dactyl, Englyn, Ruba'i, Chhand, Sapphic stanza, Tanaga, Triolet, Verse, Sicilian octave, Qijue, Onegin stanza, Burns stanza, Fib, Bob and wheel, McWhirtle, Rictameter, Doha, Cadae, Chaubola, Laisse, Shairi, Chaupai, Bar form, Rondelet, Ballad stanza, Didactic cinquain, List of classical meters, Riding rhyme, Lanterne, Glawn, Nonet, Closed couplet, Musaddas, Nonnet, Simple 4-line, Verse paragraph, Monorhyme, Sestain, Tristich. Excerpt: Haiku haikai verse) .), plural haiku, is a very short form of Japanese poetry typically characterised by three qualities: Modern Japanese gendai ( ) haiku are increasingly unlikely to follow the tradition of 17 on or to take nature as their subject, but the use of juxtaposition continues to be honoured in both traditional haiku and gendai. There is a common, although relatively recent, perception that the images juxtaposed must be directly observed everyday objects or occurrences. In Japanese, haiku are traditionally printed in a single vertical line while haiku in English often appear in three lines to parallel the three phrases of Japanese haiku. Previously called hokku, haiku was given its current name by the Japanese writer Masaoka Shiki at the end of the 19th century. In contrast to English verse typically characterized by meter, Japanese verse counts sound units known as "on" or morae. Traditional haiku consist of 17 on, in three phrases of five, seven and five on respectively. Among contemporary poems teikei (; fixed form) haiku continue to use the 5-7-5 pattern while jiyuritsu (; free form) haiku do not. One of ...
