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   eribosot (eribosot@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 01:48:42 JST eribosot

   Why is it that Western people who write haiku are obsessed with the 5-7-5 rule, but don't seem to care about the kigo (season word) or kireji (cutting word) rules?

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     valhalla (valhalla@social.gl-como.it)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 03:04:29 JST valhalla

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     @eribosot AFAIK in the western tradition poetry is classified by its syllabic structure at least since ancient Greece (even when talking about different languages where how the syllabic structure is formed is pretty different, such as the stress pattern of English poetry and the syllabic weights of Latin and ancient Greek)

     I guess that may be related to the syllabic structure being considered the most important part