LL-L "Literature" 2012.10.03 (03) [EN]

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From: Howard Scott howliosta at gmail.com

Subject: LL-L "Literature" 2012.09.28 (01) [EN-NDS]


It depends on whether or not you distinguish between moras and
syllables (cf: http://www.sljfaq.org/afaq/mora.html, also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mora_(linguistics) ).

If we just stick to the word "syllable" then "goi no koe" has five. In
Japanese each syllable (or mora) is equal in length. So each
five-syllable line is the same length.

I don't particularly like imposing the 5-7-5 syllables rule for haiku
in English or other European languages, since the number of accented
syllables is generally more important than the total number of
syllables. (But you can set whatever constraint you want for yourself
when composing poems.)

Howard

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