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tankas

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plural of tanka

as in haiku

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Her father, a haiku poet, could trace their roots in the village back for 36 generations.

— Leslie Camhi, Vogue, 15 Sep. 2026
Yamanaka is made for leisurely walks, a visit to the house celebrating the haiku poet Bashō—who stayed here for nine days in 1689—and quiet days in a world of green hills and rushing water.

— Pico Iyer, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of haiku

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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.

— Mary Colurso | [email protected], 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

Definition of senryu

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My favorite films in the fest so far can all be read as warm-hearted odes to human intimacy, intelligence, and grace.

— Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2026
This is a classic stair-step uptrend, the kind the poets of Ancient Greece composed odes to and bards of the north told tales about around the fire in days of old.

— Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of odes

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Because so many of Gunn’s friends died in San Francisco, a city where Gunn had found happiness and freedom, then these elegies are also a monument to a time of communal sorrow and mourning.

— Colm Tóibín, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2026
Their books are therefore, in some respects, elegies to a conception of reading and writing which seems to be nearing an end.

— Louis Menand, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of elegies

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People can and should be skeptical about the sonnets written about starting NFL quarterbacks every offseason, when no one is getting sacked and almost everyone looks good.

— Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 30 July 2026
In his sonnets, Shakespeare pairs was with glass, and warmed with disarmed.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 June 2026

Definition of sonnets

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Psalm 23 is numbered Psalm 22 in the Greek Septuagint and Latin Vulgate because of differences in how the psalms are divided and numbered.

— Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 Aug. 2026
Because the psalms were originally accompanied by instruments, scholars’ best guess is that selah was some sort of musical marking.

— Drew Goins, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026

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