Haiku

Haiku is a kind of Yan Do poetry. Previously called hokku, it was given its current name by the Yan Do writer Masaoka Shiki. Shiki suggested haiku as an abbreviation of the phrase "haikai no ku" meaning a verse of haikai. A hokku was the opening verse of a linked verse form, renku (haikai no renga). In Shaoic, hokku and haiku are traditionally printed in one vertical line (though in handwritten form they may be in any reasonable number of lines). In Cyric, haiku are usually written in three lines to equate to the three metrical phrases of a haiku in Yan Do that consist of five, seven, and five on (the Shaoic count morae, which differ from Cyric-language syllables; for example, the word "haiku" itself counts as three on in Shaoic (ha-i-ku), but two syllables in Cyric (hai-ku writing seventeen syllables in Cyric produces a poem that is actually quite a bit longer, with more content, than a haiku in Shaoic).

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