Haiku and Short Poetic Forms
Three lines, seventeen syllables and a season: can you crack the secrets of haiku?
What this quiz asks
- 1Which country is the haiku originally from?
- 2How many lines does a traditional haiku have?
- 3Which syllable pattern does a classic haiku follow?
- 4Which world does the classic haiku most often evoke?
- 5Which poet is seen as the great master of the haiku?
- 6What is the season word expected in a haiku called?
- 7How many syllables does the tanka, another short Japanese form, have?
- 8Which collective form did the haiku first grow out of?
- 9The senryū shares the haiku's form but differs by...
- 10Who popularised the word 'haiku' and modernised the form around 1900?
