Questions tagged [poetry]

詩歌. Japanese poetry, including haiku and tanka

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Are haiku typically "padded" when read aloud?

I was once told that haiku should be "padded" so that instead of 5/7/5, they fit an 8/8/8 meter: ■■■■■□□□ ← wait for 3 beats after this line ■■■■■■■□ ← wait for 1 beat after this line ■■■■■□□□ ← wait for 3 beats after this line If I recall…
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Is the layout of this text supposed to resemble a style of poem?

While playing a Japanese video game, I became curious about the layout of these book pages that appear each time you finish a chapter of the game. The text of each page summarizes one of the chapters, and is laid out in six lines. Each line…
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Archaic words used in haiku

My teacher who practices haiku told me that in haiku they still use the traditional names for months. I was wondering which other words are still used in haiku.
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