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Recent Examples of senryu
The construction is the same -- three lines, 17 syllables, with five syllables in the first line, seven syllables in the second line and five syllables on the third line -- but the tone and subject matter of a senryu is different.
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Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, al, 19 Nov. 2020
The event is open to anyone interested in learning about the modern haiku, senryu and haibun types of poetry, focusing on contemporary free verse forms, not the familiar five-seven-five-syllable structure.
—Carole Goldberg, courant.com, 7 Aug. 2019
Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, al, 19 Nov. 2020
The event is open to anyone interested in learning about the modern haiku, senryu and haibun types of poetry, focusing on contemporary free verse forms, not the familiar five-seven-five-syllable structure.
—Carole Goldberg, courant.com, 7 Aug. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for senryu
Noun
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Today, this is the basis of the Japanese sense of the seasons, which has also had a great influence on literature in Japan, especially with regard to haiku, the 17-syllable Japanese poem that has attained international popularity.—
Caleb Jacobs,
The Drive,
9 Apr. 2026
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Can a home furnishing-cabal haiku be far behind?—
Pat Beall,
Sun Sentinel,
13 Mar. 2026
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Each photo is combined with a tanka (a five-line, 31-syllable poem) written through the lens of a 10-year-old girl encountering the Jews for the first time, composed by poet Hiroko Yamagata.—
Josh Hasten,
Sun Sentinel,
21 Sep. 2022
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Her third and most critically acclaimed film, Forever a Woman (1955), is a tender, yearning portrait of a tanka poet with breast cancer and one of the first films anywhere to show a mastectomy.—
Lisa Wong Macabasco,
Vogue,
18 Mar. 2022
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Holmes’ feed is a babbling stream of self-help epigrams, ankle-deep reflections and many, many photos of herself.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Mercury News,
10 Dec. 2025
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That celebrated epigram is delivered by the character of Octave, who is the greatest creation of Renoir’s career—not least because he’s played by Renoir in a performance that’s essentially a self-portrait, even an onscreen self-creation.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
30 July 2025
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Recently reissued by original label Rough Trade Records, Songs to Remember epitomizes the group’s attempt to reconcile an art-school background, 1977-era punk ethics, and an obsession with chart pop into a musical statement as stately and cohesive as a book of sonnets.—
Alfred Soto,
Pitchfork,
11 Apr. 2026
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In the Village Voice, where the Consumer Guide became one of the fabled alt-weekly’s go-to features from the ’70s through the ’90s, Christgau wrote like a possessed fan who breathed insight, making every capsule sound like a psychedelic sonnet.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
29 Mar. 2026
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Matsumoto said tanka is the oldest form of traditional Japanese poetry.—
Myrna Petlicki,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Apr. 2026
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Ferrentino writes her in fairly rote terms as a bleeding-heart doctoral student in poetry, and has her politely recede as the play goes on.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
16 Apr. 2026
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“Senryu.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/senryu. Accessed 18 Apr. 2026.
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