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'Tanka (短歌 tan-kah "short song") were an important part of Japanese poetry even before the first written records were inscribed as waka (和歌 wah-kah "Japanese song") around 700 C.E, and are still written and published in hundreds of groups dedicated to the study and use of the form. In the last twenty years more people outside of Japan are discovering the marvels of tanka, and trying their hand at this short form, the grandmother of haiku.'
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The most commonly written Tanka today is five lines, thirty-one syllables, rarely rhyme and composed as follows. The Tanka's form allows for the writer to pen a more complete image than the tiny Haiku allows for. The Tanka writer traditionally uses simile, metaphor and abstract in composition .
1st Line : 5 syllables
2nd Line : 7 syllables
3rd Line : 5 syllables ( the third line usually transitional in thought)
4th Line : 7 syllables
5th Line : 7 syllables
'Tanka (短歌 tan-kah "short song") were an important part of Japanese poetry even before the first written records were inscribed as waka (和歌 wah-kah "Japanese song") around 700 C.E, and are still written and published in hundreds of groups dedicated to the study and use of the form. In the last twenty years more people outside of Japan are discovering the marvels of tanka, and trying their hand at this short form, the grandmother of haiku.'
Source : WikiHow to do anything![/b]
The most commonly written Tanka today is five lines, thirty-one syllables, rarely rhyme and composed as follows. The Tanka's form allows for the writer to pen a more complete image than the tiny Haiku allows for. The Tanka writer traditionally uses simile, metaphor and abstract in composition .
1st Line : 5 syllables
2nd Line : 7 syllables
3rd Line : 5 syllables ( the third line usually transitional in thought)
4th Line : 7 syllables
5th Line : 7 syllables