Tanka

Tanka

The classic form of Japanese poetry with five unrhymed lines of five, seven, five, seven, and seven syllables to produce a concentrated essence of a single event, image or mood.

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tanka

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A Japanese poem consisting of 31 syllables in five lines, with five syllables in the first and third lines, and seven in the others; derived from "short + song". See haiku, hokku.

tanka

Literature; Poetry

The classic form of Japanese poetry with five unrhymed lines of five, seven, five, seven, and seven syllables to produce a concentrated essence of a single event, image or mood.

tanka

Literature; General literature

A form of Japanese poetry similar to haiku. A tanka is five lines long, with the lines containing five, seven, five, seven, and seven syllables respectively. Skilled tanka authors ...

tanka

Language; Dictionaries

A kind of boat used in Canton. It is about 25 feet long and is often rowed by women. Called also tankia.

alliterative metre

Literature; Poetry

The distinctive verse form of old germanic poetry, including old english.

amoebean verse

Literature; Poetry

A poetic form in which two characters chant alternate lines, couplets, or stanzas, in competition or debate with one another.

anapaest

Literature; Poetry

A metrical foot made up of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable, as in the word 'interrupt'.

anxiety of influence

Literature; Poetry

In the unusual view of literary history offered by the critic Harold Bloom, a poet's sense of the crushing weight of poetic tradition which he has to resist and challenge in order ...

acephalous

Literature; Poetry

The Greek word for 'headless', applied to a metrical verse line that lacks the first syllable expected according to regular metre.

alcaics

Literature; Poetry

A Greek verse form using a four-line stanza in which the first two lines have eleven syllables each, the third nine, and the fourth ten.

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Received Pronunciation (RP), also called the Queen's (or King's) English,[1] Oxford English,[2] or BBC English, is the accent of Standard English in ...