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Originally Posted by Trollheart
Can someone please explain? I do not get haikus at all... five-seven-five? Huh?
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Syllables! The poem has three lines; the first is five syllables, the second is seven, and the third is five again. Meant to resemble life and death, or something like that (it comes, grows until it reaches it's apex, and then declines and fades away).