Look up: tanka

1. Tanka
   Small Japanese poem consisting of exactly 31 syllables. A tanka is a haiku with two further lines of seven syllables added. Tanka, like haiku, work on the principle that less is more e.g.
   Today, clumps of cow
   Parsley (cut back by the white
   Suited strimmer-man)
   Fall onto your surface and<...
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2. tanka
   [n] - a form of Japanese poetry
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3. tanka
   short poem, 5:7:5:7:7 syllables
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4. Tanka
   Japanese poem based on the haiku but with two additional lines giving a complete picture of an event or mood. Traditionally, when a member of the Japanese court wrote a haiku for a friend, the receiver would add two lines and return it, giving a total of five lines with 31 syllables in the pattern 5 7 5 7 7.
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5. Tanka
   Tan'ka noun (Nautical) A kind of boat used in Canton. It is about 25 feet long and is often rowed by women. Called also tankia . S. W. Williams.
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6. tanka
   noun a Tibetan religious painting on fabric
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7. tanka
   noun a form of Japanese poetry; the 1st and 3rd lines have five syllables and the 2nd, 4th, and 5th have seven syllables
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8. Tanka
   • (n.) A kind of boat used in Canton. It is about 25 feet long and is often rowed by women. Called also tankia.
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9. Tanka
   (from the article `Fukien`) ...They are distributed in the northern mountains, from the coast to the interior, and are even found beyond the Fukien border in Kiangsi and ... True to its original character as a fishing port, Hong Kong has a sizable, though rapidly dwindling, marine settlement. The `boat people,` or Tanka ... ...
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10. tanka
    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 ... [8 related articles]
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11. Tanka
    Tanka is a English girl name. The meaning of the name is `Gracious` The name Tanka doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Tanka seems to be unique!
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12. tanka
    Japanese form of five lines with five, seven, five, seven, and seven syllables, 31 in all. English examples exist by Amy Lowell and Adelaide Crapsey. E.g., A golf ball in flight marks out a delicately skewed parabola that fractals on embracing greenly arithmetic turf. (I.L.)
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13. tanka
    Japanese verse form consisting of 31 syllables arranged in five lines in the sequence 5, 7, 5, 7, 5. The classic form of Japanese poetry, the tanka (literally `short poem`) dates from as early as the 7th century AD. The tanka is not as well known in the West as the haiku, though it was the origin of the cinquain and inspired several of th...
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