Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Japanese lyric verse form having three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five morae and typically treating the theme of human foibles with an ironic or satirical tone.
- noun A verse form in another language modeled on the Japanese senryu, typically counting syllables instead of morae.
- noun A poem written in such a form.
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- noun a
haiku -like poem of up to 17syllables , usuallyhumorous orsatirical .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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- poems known as senryu have received little scholarly attention because most were written by anonymous amateur poets and were therefore considered popular literature unworthy of serious study.
AvaxHome RSS: 2009
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For the "senryu" poem, for example, he was able to construct a month old cheese sandwich using only paper fibers of various orange, yellow, green bleck!
Archive 2006-04-01 fusenumber8 2006
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And exhausted; I slept on the way to Mark's house last night, and slept for much of the day, rousing myself to Twitter a senryu: sprawled, limbs akimbo his bed emits sleepions recovery is.
I live! Really. 2009
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Maggie, what we are writing here are mostly senryu. same syllable counts 5-7-5.
Southern Haiku Contest! ____Maggie 2008
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Haiku and senryu are similar in form, but haiku are about the natural world.
Ride to Work, Work to Ride: Living the Dream BikeSnobNYC 2010
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Loved the poem, Snob, but technically it's not haiku--it's a senryu.
Ride to Work, Work to Ride: Living the Dream BikeSnobNYC 2010
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And the other good news is I had a set of four SF/SFF haiku printed in Hahaku a collection of senryu-scifaiku with a smile, edited by Teri Santitoro and published by Sam's Dot Publishing, and best of all I got paid for them!
Archive 2007-08-01 Bob Lock 2007
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And the other good news is I had a set of four SF/SFF haiku printed in Hahaku a collection of senryu-scifaiku with a smile, edited by Teri Santitoro and published by Sam's Dot Publishing, and best of all I got paid for them!
Some more stuff published Bob Lock 2007
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The haiku and senryu section has some lovely offerings.
To Read: Modern Haiku, Summer 2006 Mirtika 2006
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This book may have some of the big names and fun poems in it, but THAT book actually knows the difference between a sonnet and a senryu.
Archive 2006-12-01 fusenumber8 2006
the_grene_kni3t commented on the word senryu
Five-seven-five but
not about nature; in fact,
often satiric.
December 29, 2006
fbharjo commented on the word senryu
an ironic haiku
March 20, 2012