Examples of Haiku:
The fierce wind rages
And I see how trees survive
They have learned to bend.
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The lonely raindrop
Hurtling silently downwards
Slices humid air.
- A haiku is unrhymed.
- It is three lines long.
- It has 17 syllables in all : line 1 has 5 syllables - line 2 has 7 syllables - line 3 has 5 syllables.
- It is always written in the present tense
- It contains strong visual images.
- It captures a fleeting moment usually to do with nature or the seasons
- It uses very few words while suggesting a great deal.
Haiku is not expected to be always a complete or even a clear statement.The reader is supposed to add to the words his own associations and imagery and thus to become a co-creator of his own pleasure in the poem.
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