Poetry vs Haiku - What's the difference?
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The class of literature comprising poems.
Composition in verse or language exhibiting conscious attention to patterns.
A poet's literary production
A 'poetical' quality, artistic and/or artfull, which appeals or stirs the imagination, in any medium
A Japanese poem of a specific form, consisting of three lines, the first and last consisting of five morae, and the second consisting of seven morae, usually with an emphasis on the season or a naturalistic theme.
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A three-line poem in any language, with five syllables in the first and last lines and seven syllables in the second, usually with an emphasis on the season or a naturalistic theme.
English plurals
As nouns the difference between poetry and haiku
is that poetry is (rare|or|archaic) while haiku is .poetry
English
(wikipedia poetry)Alternative forms
* (archaic )Noun
(en-noun)- That 'Swan Lake' choreography is poetry''' in motion, fitting the musical ' poetry of Tchaikovski's divine score well beyond the literary inspiration
Quotations
* (English Citations of "poetry")Synonyms
* poesyAntonyms
* prosehaiku
English
Noun
(en-noun)citation
- Haiku, a poem
- five beats, then seven, then five
- ends as it began.
