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.
The photos of the revues, or espectáculos, are indeed odes to the spectacle.
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Bryan Barcena,
Artforum,
1 Mar. 2026
Spurs head coach Mitch Johnson has joined the Silver and Black in silver and black with a new mural at Rudy's Seafood, home to various spray-paint odes to Spurs greats old and new.
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René Guzman,
San Antonio Express-News,
25 Feb. 2026
If Wyatt and Surrey could pen brilliant sonnets under Tudor tyranny, then certainly great art can be produced under capitalism despite its particular degradations.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Mar. 2026
Today’s large language models can write sonnets and debug code.
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