Senryu
The Senryū ( Japanese 川 柳 ) is a Japanese poem form very similar to the Haiku . While the haiku is more towards nature, the senryū is more concerned with the personal, the emotional. The name goes back to Karai Senryū . The verses are written one below the other in the Japanese form.
Like a haiku, the senryū also has three parts with traditionally five, seven and five moras (office hours) . Most syllables count a more; in that they consist of a consonant initial sound with the following short vowel. Two-mores are nasal-ending syllables closed by consonant doubling and long vowel syllables. This means that konban wa does not count 3, but 5 times, kappa not 2 but 3, yūrei not 2 but 4. In Japanese syllabary , the characters ん / n /, sokuon <っ> and syllable length characters have their own more. The verse teaching is controversial in the German version .
Only recently did Senryū become more important. They are often confused with haiku even by newcomers if the only criterion used is the Mores number.