Tanka
Rules quoted from the poets.org glossary; examples only from public-domain poems.
The rules, quoted
The tanka is a thirty-one-syllable poem, traditionally written in a single unbroken line.
better known in its five-line, 5/7/5/7/7 syllable count form.
This turn is located within the third line
Our explanation written by Tale of the Muse
A tanka is thirty-one syllables, traditionally written as a single unbroken line and, in its familiar five-line form, counted 5, 7, 5, 7 and 7. The glossary places a turn within the third line.
Our plain-language restatement of the glossary rules above. It adds no facts of its own.
Example
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