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this is a dissociation between sound and shape of letters...
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this is a dissociation between sound and shape of letters...
I read in this mora article that Japanese Haikus go by a 5-7-5 moras instead of syllables. It's intuitive in Japanese since each hirigana symbol represents one mora. However, since syllables are the closest equivalent commonly understood in English, the conversion to our standard format makes sense.
The whole point of conforming to a form is to challenge yourself as a writer, to cause yourself to think of words and phrases that might not have otherwise occurred to you. There's also something to be said for the elegance of having everything fit snuggly into a tidy rhythmic pattern, like a puzzle that falls neatly into place.
Therein lies the problem of operating on such vague definitions of Haiku: if any brief poem can count as a haiku regardless of structure, then Haikus lose their specialness; they become nothing more than little poems.
My recommendation is to avoid calling your poems haikus when they don't fit the standard 5-7-5 format. Otherwise, you'll always be defending your work, and worse yet, readers will be paying more attention to your unexpected syllable counts than to what you're actually saying.
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