Haiku 101

  1. Intro: What is the haiku?
  2. Examples: essential Japanese poets
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  1. Intro

A Japanese verse form most often composed, in English versions, of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables. („Haiku (or hokku)“)

  1. Examples

75 [„Wake, butterfly“] by Bashō

Wake, butterfly—

it’s late, we’ve miles

to go together.

Translated By Lucien Stryk

Source: „Haiku (or hokku).“ Poetry Foundation. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/education/glossary/haiku-or-hokku