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Haiku

2 stages from Japanese to English.

Today it means a Japanese poem of three lines, traditionally following a five-seven-five syllable pattern
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Stage 1 of 2
haikai
Japanese · 1600s
"playful linked verse"
a playful linked-verse poetry form, later shortened to a standalone three-line poem
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Stage 2 of 2
haiku
English · 1900s
"a three-line Japanese poem of seventeen syllables"
adopted directly for the concise three-line poetic form
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