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

[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.