Senryū

The Senryu (Japanese川 柳) is a haiku very similar form of Japanese poetry. While the haiku is but facing more toward nature, the Senryu more concerned with the personal, the emotional. The name goes back to Karai Senryu. The verses are written in Japanese form with each other.

Like a haiku also has the senryû three verses with traditional five, seven, and five morae ( office hours ). Most syllables include a More; by namely consist of an initial consonant with the following short vowel. Zweimorisch are on Nasal auslautende, closed by doubling consonants and syllables langvokalische. That is, konban wa counts not 3 but 5 times, not kappa 2, but 3, yurei not 2, but 4 in the Japanese syllabary therefore corresponds to the signsん/ n /, Sokuon <っ> and syllable length characters own More. In the German version the prosody is controversial.

Only recently has reached senryû greater importance. They are often confused even by newcomers with haiku, if only the More number is used as the sole criterion.