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Consists of seven syllables:

• Five in the first line
• Seven in the second line
• Five in the third line

Note theses are syllables NOT words.

Includes a description of something in the natural world, or an indication of the season, or both. Is usually written in the present tense.

Examples:

An  old silent pond

A frog jumps into the pond,

splash! Silence again.

-- Matsuo Basho

Over the wintry

Forest, winds howl in rage

with no leaves to blow.

-- Natsume Soseki

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