575 verse - syllables
Historically, I've always messed about with posting daft 575 verses on my many blogs. So far, in my latest incarnation here, I have managed to protect you from the silliness of these efforts.
Well, today that ends.
Sorry.
I also tend to post an explanation, showing that I know the difference between haiku and senryu – and why my verses are neither – on my first 575 verse post. This also explains why I call them 575 verses and not haiku or senryu.
This is not just an attempt to appear intelligent and highbrow, but to be correct. Why I feel I have to be correct about this one point when the rest of my output is factually all over the place is a mystery.
Really, I should just bite the bullet and call these stupid things haiku like everyone else does, but my brain is fully aware that they're not, so that is enough to prevent me from doing that.
Stupid brain.
I am aware of the most common form of these verses being popularly encompassed by the name haiku these days, but I know the traditional haiku form isn't just three lines, with a 5-7-5 syllable pattern.
Traditional haiku favour an observation about nature and seasonality as its subject matter. Senryu tends to be about human nature, often with a funny or ironic twist.
Neither have to be three lines, and it doesn't have to follow the syllable 'rules'.
The rules I make up for a 575 post is that there must be three lines in the syllable format 5-7-5.
I didn't think I was capable of pedantry, but I think what is happening is that I need a rule to be there... so I can subvert it and otherwise muck about within it.
Perhaps just strange brain, not stupid.
Then I find it actually quite fun to muck about within the supposed restrictions of a 575 verse.
But they're not haiku. Although I won't stop you if you want to call them that.
finding yourself short?
extend the syllable count
haikukukuku
post link for sharing: https://skryblans.com/575-verse-syllables
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