View What Is A Tanka Poem PNG. A form of waka, japanese song or verse, tanka. Tanka was practiced in classical japan as a form of linked verse.
Most haiku writers prefer poems that refer to nature and social events, but some of them don't always place an exacting seasonal word in the poem. I want to try and improve upon writing tanka poems and this is the the typical lyric poem of japanese literature, composed of five unrhymed metrical units of 5,7,5,7,7 'sound symbols'; Tanka's economy and suitability for emotional expression made it ideal for intimate communication;
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Be sure to count your syllables carefully. The original japanese form of tanka had only one line of poetry containing 31 speech sounds—what we would call syllables. I'm offering 20 free tanka poems for the first 26 people that comments on this journal entry! It was so much better, easier than they thought as the bombs.