Sept haï-kaïs "La petite tortue ...", is only seventeen measures long—the number of syllables in a Japanese haiku. Alexis Roland-Manuel remarked on this "mélodie": "Do not let your modesty make you forget a certain fable by La Fontaine. You hurry slowly, perhaps, but none of your steps are wasted. How many hares envy you!" The harmony is pricked with fine, expressive dissonances. For the third "mélodie", "Le coq ...", the instruments "peck" the melody with appoggiaturas in a spirit similar to that in Ravel's "Histoires naturelles" (1906). According to Andrieu, "Maurice Delage's composition is simple and refined; the composer stays ever attentive
Haiku in languages other than Japanese published by the Estonian Writers' Union's magazine "Looming" ("Creation"). Estonian haiku have been actively translated into Finnish. Jhinabhai Desai introduced Haiku in Gujarati literature and popularized it. "Soneri Chand Rooperi Suraj" (1967) is the collection of 359 haiku and six Tanka poems. "Kevalveej" (1984) and "Sunrise on the Snowpeaks" are his other haiku collections. Dhiru Parikh published Haiku collection titled "Aagiya" in 1982. Haiku poetry is a relatively new practice in the Arabic literature. It wasn't until 2010 when the first book was published by a Syrian writer Muhammad Adimah containing 1000 haiku translated from Japanese directly. Although most of