What Are Really Short Poems Called?

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Ali Roman asked 3 years ago

What are really short poems called?

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smartenglishnotes Staff answered 3 years ago

Haiku is the shortest poetry form.It has 17 syllables, arranged in three lines of 5-7-5 syllables. Haiku grew out of another poetry form, tanka, which has 31 syllables of 5-7-5-7-7.