: Re: Is this a valid haiku? A friend showed me a website for an artist. There is a page filled with haikus he's written. Can someone verify the validity of the following haiku: i don’t really

@Phylliss352

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No. There is a distinct pattern that is required. To wit:

a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.

A poem in English written in the form of a haiku.

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What you presented does not fit the pattern.

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