Haiku the 5-7-5 pattern. Although the word ""on"" is sometimes translated as "syllable", one "on" is counted for a short syllable, two for an elongated vowel or doubled consonant, and one for an "n" at the end of a syllable. Thus, the word "haibun", though counted as two syllables in English, is counted as four "on" in Japanese (ha-i-bu-n); and the word ""on"" itself, which English-speakers would view as a single syllable, comprises two "on": the short vowel o and the . This is illustrated by the Issa haiku below, which contains 17 "on" but only 15 syllables. Conversely, some sounds,
Haiku in English circular form (sometimes known as "cirku") whereby the poem has no fixed start or end point. In the "zip" form developed by John Carley, a haiku of 15 syllables is presented over two lines, each of which contains one internal caesura represented by a double space. A fixed-form 5-3-5 syllable (or 3-5-3 word) haiku is sometimes known as a "lune". The leading English-language haiku journals published in the U.S. include "Modern Haiku", "Frogpond" (published by the Haiku Society of America), "Mayfly" (founded by Randy and Shirley Brooks in 1986), "Acorn" (founded by A. C. Missias in 1998), "Bottle Rockets" (founded