Haiku a phrase in the remaining 12 "on" (it may not be apparent from the English translation of the Issa that the first five "on" mean "Edo's rain"). In comparison with English verse typically characterized by syllabic meter, Japanese verse counts sound units known as ""on"" or morae. Traditional haiku consist of 17 "on", in three phrases of five, seven and five "on" respectively. Among contemporary poems "teikei" ( fixed form) haiku continue to use the 5-7-5 pattern while "jiyuritsu" ( free form) haiku do not. One of the examples below illustrates that traditional haiku masters were not always constrained by
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