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Meaning of HAIKU

Pronunciation:  'hIkoo

 
WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
[n]  an epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines
 

HAIKU is a 5 letter word that starts with H.

 

 See Also: poem, verse form

 

 

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 Related Terms: alba, anacreontic, balada, ballad, ballade, bucolic, canso, chanson, clerihew, dirge, dithyramb, eclogue, elegy, English sonnet, epic, epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, georgic, ghazel, Horatian ode, idyll, Italian sonnet, jingle, limerick, lyric, madrigal, monody, narrative poem, nursery rhyme, ode, palinode, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle, Petrarchan sonnet, Pindaric ode, poem, prothalamium, rhyme, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, Sapphic ode, satire, sestina, Shakespearean sonnet, sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence, tanka, tenso, tenzone, threnody, triolet, troubadour poem, verse, verselet, versicle, villanelle, virelay
 

 

 

 

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