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Haiku Lesson




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 Haiku

Haiku poems are generally written to describe nature.
The most widely recognized form
consists of a three-line
stanza that has a total of seventeen syllables, written in the following pattern:
 
 
 
                                                          Relaxing
 
                                                                   By
                                                                CMH
 
Lines in the Haiku
Words broken into syllables
Number of syllables
 
Gentle rain on me
 
 
Gent / le   rain  on  me
 
5 syllables
 
Warm sunshine fills my small room
 
 
Warm sun / shine fills my small room
 
7 syllables
 
The doors blow open
 
 
The doors blow o/pen
 
5 syllables
 
                                                                 
 
                                                             
 
 
                                                       Relaxing   
 
                                                 Gentle rain on me
 
                               Warm sunshine fills my small room
 
                                             The doors blow open                                   
 
 
 Notice how the words and phrases used in a haiku poem do not rhyme.
 
 
 
 
 
Exercise: Complete the following haiku so that it has 5, 7, 5 syllables in each of the three lines. Remember: haikus should be about nature.
 
 
When the   came in                                   (5 syllables)
 
The trees bent   with the             (7 syllables)
 
And they                                             (5 syllables)
 
 
 

               
 
 

 

 

 HAIKU

SEVENTEEN

FIVE
 
SEVEN
 
NATURE
 
WIND
 
RAIN
 
SYLLABLES