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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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Use it to simplify, not just amplify Ask AI to explain complex concepts in plain English, like in the style of a tweet, a haiku, or for a 12-year-old.—
William Arruda,
Forbes.com,
11 May 2025
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Imagine, for example, asking an AI to evaluate your attempt at writing a haiku.—
Mike Caulfield,
The Atlantic,
9 May 2025
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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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Her poems of that era — sonnets, epigrams, eminently quotable snippets of rhymed gossip — pulse with the dynamism and attitude of the modern city.—
A.O. Scott,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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Throughout, Snook hams for laughs, turning Wilde’s witticisms and epigrams into slapstick.—
Christian Lewis,
Variety,
28 Mar. 2025
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At Paul Revere Junior High, Russell won first place at a Shakespeare Festival for his sonnet recitation.—
Katherine Turman,
Los Angeles Times,
28 May 2025
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Her poems of that era — sonnets, epigrams, eminently quotable snippets of rhymed gossip — pulse with the dynamism and attitude of the modern city.—
A.O. Scott,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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Chaining two of these machines together, Kalma was able to create analog loops of saxophone, church organ, and other instruments, layering them with poetry and found sound in his first original compositions.—
Walden Green,
Pitchfork,
8 June 2025
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In two brief pen strokes of poetry, Stone had summed up internship.—
Danielle Ofri,
New Yorker,
7 June 2025
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“Senryu.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/senryu. Accessed 12 Jun. 2025.
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