Haiku

俳句

Haiku is a Japanese poetic form that represents, in seventeen syllables, ordered into three lines of five, seven, and five syllables, the poet’s emotional or spiritual response to a natural object, scene, or season of the year. The strict form, which relies on the short, uniform, and unstressed syllabic structure of the Japanese language, is very difficult in English; most poets who attempt the haiku loosen the rule for the number and pattern of the syllables.

俳句是日本的一种十七音节的诗歌形式，由三句分别有五、七、五个音节构成的诗行组成，是诗人吟诵自然景物或四季风光、咏物寄怀、抒发心灵感受的诗歌。日文的俳句诗行简短，形式统一，无重音节结构，这种严格的俳句形式在英语中很难做到；大多数俳句诗人并没有严格遵循俳句音节的数量和分布模式。