tanka

tanka
/tahng"keuh/, n., pl. tankas, tanka. Pros.
a Japanese poem consisting of 31 syllables in 5 lines, with 5 syllables in the first and third lines and 7 in the others.
[1915-20; < Japn < MChin, equiv. to Chin duan short + ge song; cf. RENGA]

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▪ Japanese poetry
      in literature, a five-line, 31-syllable poem that has historically been the basic form of Japanese poetry. The term tanka is synonymous with the term waka (q.v.), which more broadly denotes all traditional Japanese poetry in classical forms.

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