Poetry quiz

[daibhidc]

I am the tanka. The attention of others Is unnerving, and Since I try not to draw it, I'm left alone. Which is good. What Poetry Form Are You?

If I wasn't a tanka, I'd be a haiku

Short, terse, unfriendly, Yet sometimes quite emotive; I am the Haiku. What Poetry Form Are You?

Never actually heard of a tanka before.

Comments

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

I got Haiku as the alternative to my first result (this time 'round), too. And I have to say:

I think Haiku are very friendly poems. They just prefer to focus their attention on quiet, little things that the madding crowd chooses to ignore. ...(One of the requirements of haiku, besides the 5-7-5 syllable structure is that they have Nature as their subject.)

If you'd like to sit down beside them and watch the grass grow, or the reflections of the moon in the water, you won't find a better friend, anywhere.

[silly-swordsman.livejournal.com]

We did tankas at the same time as we did haikus at school, but I've since understood that our Swedish teacher taught us a fair bit that wasn't on the curriculum (for instance, we did Wole Soyinka's poetry a couple of years before he got a Nobel prize), since it appears most people have only heard about haikus.