| 17-syllable poem |
Puzzler Backwords |
04 Sep 2025 |
| Poem that's typically unrhymed |
New York Times |
28 Aug 2025 |
| Three-line poem |
USA Today |
26 Aug 2025 |
| Japanese poem |
The Telegraph Quick |
22 Aug 2025 |
| Brief verse from Japan / With seventeen syllables / Illustrated here |
New York Times |
20 Aug 2025 |
| Seventeen-syllable poem |
USA Today |
16 Aug 2025 |
| Japanese poem |
LA Times Daily |
07 Aug 2025 |
| Japanese verse form of seventeen syllables |
Puzzler Backwords |
31 Jul 2025 |
| 17-syllable poem |
Puzzler Backwords |
30 Jul 2025 |
| Three-line Japanese poem |
The Times Concise |
30 Jul 2025 |
| Unbounded chat, like our kind of poetry (5) |
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| What is a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables? (5) |
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| Brief Japanese poem |
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| Japanese poetry style |
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| 17-syllable poem |
Puzzler Backwords |
30 Jun 2025 |
| 17-syllable poem of Japan |
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| Japanese poem talked of lofty cow in Scotland (5) |
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| Japanese poem |
Puzzler Backwords |
21 May 2025 |
| Seventeen-syllable work of art |
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| Uses cheap inks up occasionally, creating Japanese-style work of art |
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| Japanese verse form |
The Telegraph Quick |
21 Apr 2025 |
| Laugh at individual sending up neighbour in short poem |
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| Three-line poem from Japan |
New York Times |
14 Apr 2025 |
| 17-syllable poem |
Puzzler Backwords |
07 Apr 2025 |
| Seventeen-syllable poetry form |
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| What strikers mount is essentially poetic |
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| Japanese verse form in 17 syllables |
Mirror Quiz |
13 Mar 2025 |
| Poem with a 5-7-5 syllable pattern |
LA Times Daily |
07 Mar 2025 |
| Sources of high art in Kyoto University? |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
06 Mar 2025 |
| Japanese verse form of seventeen syllables |
Puzzler Backwords |
03 Mar 2025 |
| 17-syllable poem |
Puzzler Backwords |
02 Mar 2025 |
| Japanese poem |
The Telegraph Quick |
23 Feb 2025 |
| Three-line poem |
Commuter |
13 Feb 2025 |
| Brief form of Japanese poem (5) |
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| Elevated sound of surprise, it's said, for Japanese poem (5) |
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| High coup mentioned in short poem (5) |
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| Type of short form poetry that originated in Japan (5) |
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| Matsuo Basho poem |
USA Today |
25 Jan 2025 |
| Poetic exercise in brevity, perhaps |
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| Jazzer Don Ellis in poetic, Japanese mood (5) |
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| *Three-line Japanese poem with a 17-syllable structure |
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| "Wow, I love crosswords / I also love Diet Coke / Facets, I have them," for example |
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| 17-syllable poem |
Thomas Joseph |
14 Nov 2024 |
| 17-syllable poem |
Wall Street Journal |
04 Nov 2024 |
| *Three-line Japanese poem with a 17-syllable structure |
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| Japanese poem of seventeen syllables (5) |
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| Short Japanese poem |
Universal |
04 Oct 2024 |
| Which Japanese poem form contains 17 phonetic units? (5) |
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| Poem that's traditionally about nature |
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| Lines of dialogue between human and pigeon recorded |
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| Japanese verse form in 17 syllables |
Mirror Quiz |
02 Sep 2024 |
| Short, evocative Japanese poem (5) |
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| Short Japanese poem |
Universal |
14 Aug 2024 |
| 17-syllable poem |
LA Times Daily |
01 Aug 2024 |
| Matsuo Basho composition, e.g. |
The Telegraph Plusword |
03 Jul 2024 |
| 17-syllable poem |
Puzzler Backwords |
23 Jun 2024 |
| Three-line poem that originated in Japan |
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| Work of Matsuo Basho or Masaoka Shiki |
New York Times |
13 Jun 2024 |
| Japanese poem style |
Commuter |
22 May 2024 |
| Seventeen-syllable Japanese poetry form |
Family Time |
21 Apr 2024 |
| Japanese poem with 17 syllables |
New York Times Mini |
19 Apr 2024 |
| Japanese verse |
Eugene Sheffer |
18 Apr 2024 |
| 17-syllable Japanese poem |
New York Times |
08 Apr 2024 |
| Literary work/with a format that's concise/first penned in Japan |
Wall Street Journal |
30 Mar 2024 |
| Japanese 3-line poem with 17 syllables (5) |
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| Versed in Japanese (5) |
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| A kind of poem / Found within this crossword clue / Serendipity |
New York Times |
12 Mar 2024 |
| Poem from Shanghai Kurt composed (5) |
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| Composition that / Has exactly seventeen / Syllables in it |
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| After chai took off, cafe head got Britain served up poetry (5) |
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| Heat inks up, oddly enough, to produce Japanese poetry (5) |
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| Epigrammatic Japanese verse form in 17 syllables (5) |
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| Japanese verse form in 17 syllables |
Mirror Quiz |
06 Feb 2024 |
| Henry and King adopting artificial intelligence at university to compose Japanese poem (5) |
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| Poem with a seasonal reference |
USA Today |
02 Feb 2024 |
| Terse verse |
Newsday |
19 Jan 2024 |
| Japanese poetic form with a 5-7-5 syllabic pattern (5) |
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| Japanese poetic form with a 5-7-5 syllabic pattern |
The Guardian Weekend |
13 Jan 2024 |
| Lofty expression of surprise as expressed in poem |
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| Short Japanese poem |
The Telegraph Quick |
12 Jan 2024 |
| Sort of poem not usually pluralized by adding an -s |
New York Times |
03 Jan 2024 |
| 17-syllable verse |
New York Times |
19 Dec 2023 |
| Lofty expression of surprise as expressed in poem (5) |
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| Japanese poetry form |
USA Today |
15 Dec 2023 |
| Kobayashi Issa poem |
USA Today |
29 Nov 2023 |
| 17-syllable work |
LA Times Daily |
09 Nov 2023 |
| Japanese poetic form |
Newsday |
18 Oct 2023 |
| Japanese poem |
The Telegraph Quick |
01 Oct 2023 |
| Japanese poem |
The Telegraph Quick |
19 Jul 2023 |
| 'What Richard Wright wrote' could be the first line of one |
New York Times |
05 Jul 2023 |
| Three-line Japanese poem |
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| Japanese poetic form |
USA Today |
08 May 2023 |
| Japanese poem with 17 syllables |
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| 17-syllable poem |
Thomas Joseph |
17 Apr 2023 |
| 5/7/5 poem |
USA Today |
27 Mar 2023 |
| Short poem |
Thomas Joseph |
16 Mar 2023 |
| Poetry verse form/in which this clue is written/how meta indeed |
Wall Street Journal |
02 Mar 2023 |
| Short poem |
Thomas Joseph |
01 Mar 2023 |
| Poetic form used by Basho |
USA Today |
14 Feb 2023 |
| Terse verse |
Wall Street Journal |
07 Jan 2023 |
| 17-syllable poem |
Thomas Joseph |
26 Dec 2022 |
| Japanese verse |
Universal |
02 Dec 2022 |
| Three-line verse |
LA Times Daily |
25 Nov 2022 |
| One having three lines listened to stoned fancy |
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| Japanese poem |
The Times Concise |
12 Oct 2022 |
| Quick-to-read poem |
Wall Street Journal |
20 Sep 2022 |
| 17-syllable poem |
Thomas Joseph |
17 Aug 2022 |
| 17-syllable poem |
LA Times Daily |
09 Aug 2022 |
| 17-syllable poem |
Thomas Joseph |
09 Jun 2022 |
| Japanese poem |
Newsday |
11 May 2022 |
| Japanese verse form of three short lines |
The Guardian Quick |
06 Apr 2022 |
| This country is back — after having an illness — that's just for starters |
The Guardian Cryptic |
23 Feb 2022 |
| This country is back — after having an illness — that's just for starters |
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| Japanese work with very few words |
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| First of haunting autumnal images Keats used to write poem |
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| First of haunting autumnal images Keats used to write poem |
The Guardian Cryptic |
10 Jan 2022 |
| Japanese verse |
Eugene Sheffer |
08 Jan 2022 |
| Poetic form with kireji |
USA Today |
07 Dec 2021 |
| Japanese poem |
The Times Concise |
01 Dec 2021 |
| Epigrammatic Japanese poem |
The Guardian Quick |
19 Nov 2021 |
| Loud bird-call audible in poem |
The Times Cryptic |
10 Nov 2021 |
| 17-syllable poem |
Wall Street Journal |
02 Nov 2021 |
| Kobayashi Issa poem |
The Washington Post Sunday |
03 Oct 2021 |
| Reportedly excellent masterstroke to produce short verse form |
The Telegraph Toughie |
22 Sep 2021 |
| Hearts of the vain yakuza captured in poetry |
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| Poetic form similar to tanka |
USA Today |
19 May 2021 |
| Hearts of the vain yakuza captured in poetry |
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| Three lines husband put on road margins finally to park Daihatsu |
The Telegraph Toughie |
16 Apr 2021 |
| Japanese verse originally hidden away in Kyoto university |
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| It's found among 3, with fixed syllabic structure, similar to this |
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| Bit of Japanese poetry |
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| Japanese poem of 17 syllables |
The Telegraph Quick |
14 Feb 2021 |
| Japanese poetry form |
USA Today |
24 Jan 2021 |
| Japanese poem |
The Times Concise |
20 Dec 2020 |
| . Half an inch at first, with this country rejected, for a mere poem |
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| Japanese verse |
Eugene Sheffer |
27 Nov 2020 |
| Three-line verse |
Newsday |
15 Nov 2020 |
| One piece by queen in drag, failing to finish lines |
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| A poem like this clue / Although perhaps not quite as / Abominable |
Universal |
05 Oct 2020 |
| Short verse |
LA Times Daily |
10 Sep 2020 |
| Short verse |
The Washington Post |
10 Sep 2020 |
| Oriental verse reporting shrill sound made by dove? |
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| Bit of poetry with the same syllable count as this very clue |
New York Times |
24 Jul 2020 |
| Three-line poem |
Universal |
02 Jul 2020 |
| Japanese verse of three lines |
Irish Times Simplex |
30 Jun 2020 |
| Short Japanese poem |
Universal |
08 Jun 2020 |
| Poem with 17 morae |
USA Today |
18 May 2020 |
| Announcement of top-level takeover in three lines |
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| Short Japanese poem |
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| Poem of 17 syllables |
The Times Concise |
22 Mar 2020 |
| Occasionally, Thea picks up poem |
The Telegraph Toughie |
27 Feb 2020 |
| Rebellion at the top reported in verse? |
The Telegraph Toughie |
05 Feb 2020 |
| Short Japanese poem |
The Times Concise |
19 Dec 2019 |
| 17-syllable poem |
Universal |
10 Dec 2019 |
| Japanese verse with 17 syllables |
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| 17-syllable Japanese poem |
The Washington Post |
28 Oct 2019 |
| 17-syllable Japanese poem |
LA Times Daily |
28 Oct 2019 |
| 'The west wind whispered, / And touched the eyelids of spring: / Her eyes, Primroses,' for a classic example |
New York Times |
21 Oct 2019 |
| "The west wind whispered, / And touched the eyelids of spring: / Her eyes, Primroses," for a classic example |
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| Japanese verse with 17 syllables |
The Telegraph General Knowledge |
01 Sep 2019 |
| Homework at inferior Karachi uni initially takes little work |
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| Japanese poetic form |
The Sun Two Speed |
27 Jul 2019 |
| Oriental verse reporting shrill sound made by dove? |
The Sun Two Speed |
27 Jul 2019 |
| Poem, when recited, evokes shrill birdcall |
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| Kublai Khan rewritten to omit awful blank verse |
The Telegraph Toughie |
12 Jul 2019 |
| Very short poem |
The Washington Post |
05 Jul 2019 |
| Very short poem |
LA Times Daily |
05 Jul 2019 |
| Poem, great accomplishment, read out |
The Sun Two Speed |
06 Jun 2019 |
| Japanese verse form |
The Sun Two Speed |
06 Jun 2019 |
| Seventeen-syllable work |
USA Today |
26 May 2019 |
| Poem, when recited, evokes shrill birdcall |
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| A lot of bad weather has European country recalled in poem |
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| Form of poetry / Presented as in this clue / But not the others |
The Washington Post Sunday |
14 Apr 2019 |
| Description of call from dove loft heard in poem |
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| Three lines that Mike cut in the middle |
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| Pithy lines covering reduced European country needing revolution |
The Telegraph Toughie |
10 Jan 2019 |
| Seventeen-syllable verse |
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| Seventeen-syllable work |
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| 17-syllable Japanese poem |
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| Very short poem |
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| Poem – great, great accomplishment read out? |
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| Seventeen-syllable verse |
USA Today |
18 Dec 2018 |
| 17-syllable poem |
Wall Street Journal |
17 Dec 2018 |
| What's in Thai, like our Eastern verse |
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| Japanese terse verse |
Newsday |
16 Nov 2018 |
| Verse form |
The Telegraph Quick |
13 Nov 2018 |
| Lines husband may like but with no margins |
The Telegraph Toughie |
11 Sep 2018 |
| Japanese verse form |
The Telegraph Quick |
17 Aug 2018 |
| Poem name whose singular and plural forms are the same |
New York Times |
12 Aug 2018 |
| Japanese poem |
Universal |
27 Jul 2018 |
| Followers of every line of Anouilh play like folksy and lusty poetry |
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| Epigrammatic verse |
The Times Concise |
17 Jun 2018 |
| After vacation, homework at uni contains first-class poem |
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| Japanese verse reporting shrill sound made by dove? |
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| Japanese verse |
Newsday |
15 Apr 2018 |
| 17-syllable poem |
Thomas Joseph |
04 Apr 2018 |
| Trimming the margins, what oiks cut a few lines? |
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| 17-syllable verse |
Universal |
28 Feb 2018 |
| Three-line Japanese poem |
Newsday |
23 Jan 2018 |
| Writing form even more constrained than a tweet |
New York Times |
06 Jan 2018 |
| 17-syllable verse |
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| 17-syllable poem |
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| Japanese poem |
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| Poem name whose singular and plural forms are the same |
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| Writing form even more constrained than a tweet |
|
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| Winding up high-class motor company -- hard lines |
The Telegraph Toughie |
20 Dec 2017 |
| What's poetic greeting heard the country over? |
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| Three-line form reported power grab at top level? |
|
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| Oriental poem with sound of excited talk as lovebirds do |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
21 Oct 2017 |
| A poetry form/With seventeen syllables/And only three lines |
Wall Street Journal |
10 Oct 2017 |
| Basho work |
Wall Street Journal |
05 Oct 2017 |
| Starts to harness an idealistic karma understandably |
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| Specifically designed poem |
The Washington Post |
23 Jul 2017 |
| Specifically designed poem |
LA Times Daily |
23 Jul 2017 |
| Island nation reflected after chap discovered Japanese writing |
The Telegraph Toughie |
27 Apr 2017 |
| Japanese 17-syllable poem |
LA Times Daily |
25 Apr 2017 |
| Japanese 17-syllable poem |
The Washington Post |
25 Apr 2017 |
| Noble, with great success, recited poetic lines |
The Telegraph Toughie |
20 Apr 2017 |
| Three-line verse |
USA Today |
09 Apr 2017 |
| 5-7-5 verse |
New York Times |
21 Feb 2017 |
| Poem like 'The swallow flies up / Into a blue evening sky, / Summer's small herald' |
New York Times |
13 Feb 2017 |
| Short verse |
Newsday |
13 Jan 2017 |
| Lines from 60s musical briefly lifted nation |
The Times Cryptic |
04 Jan 2017 |
| Poem like "The swallow flies up / Into a blue evening sky, / Summer's small herald" |
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| Specifically designed poem |
|
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| Japanese 17-syllable poem |
|
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| Three-line verse |
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| 5-7-5 verse |
|
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| Japanese three-line verse form |
Irish Times Simplex |
10 Dec 2016 |
| Narrowly defined verse |
LA Times Daily |
25 Nov 2016 |
| Japanese poem |
The Telegraph Quick |
11 Aug 2016 |
| Verse often inspired by nature |
The Chronicle of Higher Education |
10 Jun 2016 |
| Terse verse |
Newsday |
27 May 2016 |
| 17-syllable work |
LA Times Daily |
19 May 2016 |
| 17-syllable verse |
Wall Street Journal |
03 May 2016 |
| Three-line work |
New York Times |
27 Apr 2016 |
| Japanese verse |
LA Times Daily |
26 Apr 2016 |
| One-stanza poem |
New York Times |
20 Mar 2016 |
| Japanese verse form |
Universal |
26 Feb 2016 |
| Human rights group in Chinese territory texted you in verse |
|
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| Japanese verse form with 17 syllables in three short phrases |
The Guardian Speedy |
03 Jan 2016 |
| Verse often inspired by nature |
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| 17-syllable work |
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| 17-syllable poem |
Eugene Sheffer |
20 Nov 2015 |
| Lofty success announced in 17 syllables |
|
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| Japanese poem |
Newsday |
18 Aug 2015 |
| Kublai Khan missing blank verse from Tokyo |
Irish Times Crosaire |
17 Apr 2015 |
| It traditionally captures the essence of the moment |
Wall Street Journal |
09 Mar 2015 |
| 17-syllable verse |
Newsday |
18 Jan 2015 |
| Japanese poem with 17 syllables |
LA Times Daily |
12 Jan 2015 |
| Traditional three-liner |
New York Times |
03 Jan 2015 |
| Three-line poem |
|
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| Japanese poem with 17 syllables |
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| Short verse |
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| Traditional three-liner |
|
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| Japanese verse |
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| Japanese poem |
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| 17-syllable verse |
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| Hong Kong university receives excellent poem |
|
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| Japanese verse form |
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| Three-line verse |
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| Work with 17 syllables |
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| Exercise in brevity |
|
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| Type of poem |
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| Japanese poem |
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| 17-syllable poem |
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| Three-line opus |
|
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| Poem with 17 syllables |
|
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| Japanese verse |
|
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| "An old silent pond / A frog jumps into the pond / Splash! Silence again," e.g. |
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| 17-syllable poem |
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| Dove's top notes recited poem |
|
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| A poem like this / Of 17 syllables / Split 5-7-5 |
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| 17-syllable verse form |
|
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| 17-syllable form of poetry |
|
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| Its middle line is heptasyllabic |
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| Three-line verse |
|
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| Three-line poem |
|
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| Japanese verse |
|
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| Three-line Japanese poem |
|
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| Poem has always intrigued Kyoto union bosses |
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| Poem of 17 syllables |
|
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| Japanese verse form |
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| Poem read in a Zen garden, perhaps |
|
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| One may be written / Just like this clue is written / But a lot better |
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| Japanese three-line verse |
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| Poem of 17 syllables |
|
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| 17-syllable form of poetry |
|
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| Three-line Japanese poem |
|
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| Three-phrase poem |
|
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| Japanese three-line verse |
|
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| Three-line verse |
|
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| Poem with exactly 17 syllables |
|
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| Poem of 17 syllables |
|
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| Japanese verse |
|
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| Verse often about nature |
|
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| Three-line verse |
|
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| 17-syllable work |
|
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| 17-syllable verse |
|
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| Verse often about nature |
|
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| 17-syllable verse |
|
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| 17-syllable poem |
|
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| Seventeen-syllable poem |
|
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| Poetic form inspired by nature |
|
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| Basho composition |
|
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| Seventeen-syllable creation |
|
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| Narrowly defined verse |
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| Basho's forte |
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| 17-syllable poem |
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| Narrowly defined verse |
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| Basho's forte |
|
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| Japanese verse form |
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| Evocative verse |
|
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| Japanese verse form |
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| Japanese poetry |
|
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| 17-syllable poem |
|
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| Short poem about nature |
|
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| Short verse |
|
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| One-stanza poem |
|
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| Three-line Japanese verse |
|
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| Narrowly defined poem |
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| Narrowly defined poem |
|
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| 17-syllable creation |
|
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| Japanese verse form |
|
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| Terse verse |
|
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| Three-line work |
|
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| Terse verse |
|
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| 3-line poem |
|
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| Senryu's cousin |
|
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| 17-syllable verse |
|
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| Short poem |
|
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| Evocative three-line verse |
|
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| Terse verse |
|
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| Tanka's shorter cousin |
|
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| Verse with 17 syllables |
|
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| Short poem |
|
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| Succinct verse |
|
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| Japanese verse |
|
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| Brief poetry |
|
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| Japanese verse |
|
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| Terse verse |
|
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| Three lines, perhaps |
|
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| Three-line poem |
|
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| 17-syllable poem |
|
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| Three-line verse |
|
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| Three-line work |
|
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| Epigrammatic verse |
|
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| Unrhymed poem |
|
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| Japanese verse form |
|
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| Japanese three-line verse |
|
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| Japanese poem |
|
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| Poetry form |
|
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| Terse verse |
|
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| Japanese three-line verse |
|
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| Tanka's shorter cousin |
|
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| Three-line Japanese verse |
|
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| Japanese verse |
|
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| Poem with 17 syllables |
|
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| Poem of 17 syllables |
|
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| It traditionally captures the essence of the moment |
|
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| 17-syllable poem |
|
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| It's traditionally about nature |
|
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| Three-line Japanese verse |
|
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| Kyoshi's poetry |
|
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| Poem with 17 syllables |
|
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| Loud bird-call audible in poem |
|
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| 17-syllable verse |
|
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| What "Now the swinging bridge/Is quieted with creepers/Like our tendrilled life" is an example of |
|
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| Japanese poetry form |
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| Succinct verse form |
|
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| Basho poem |
|
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| Japanese verse form |
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| Japanese unrhymed verse |
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| Eastern verse |
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| Verse with 17 syllables |
|
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| 17-syllable poem |
|
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| Unrhymed Japanese poem |
|
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| Short Japanese verse |
|
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| Matsuo Basho work |
|
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| Poetic genre of Matsuo Basho |
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| Form of Japanese poetry |
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| Basho specialty |
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| Oriental poem |
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| Japanese verse form |
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| Japanese poem |
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| Japanese poem. |
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| Unrhymed Japanese poem. |
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