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Modern Tanka is a Japanese short poem without a rigid set of rules. The first poets who wrote modern tanka imitated the Japanese models of a 5-7-5-7-7 syllabic structure in five lines. This resulted in poems that were too long in comparison to Japanese tanka. They were padded or chopped to meet the fixed number of syllables. During the last 30 years, poets continue to experiment with the modern tanka in English. Basically, it's an untitled free-verse poem having about 12 to 31 syllables usually arranged in five lines and about two breaths in length when read aloud. Modern tanka uses metaphor, simile, or personification. The subject matter varies, but most tanka are emotionally stirring or profound, and many are about love. Tanka is usually written in the first-person narrator's point of view. click here if you want to read modern tanka examples === click here to read Tanka Society of America === click here if you want to read modern tanka rules

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