Etymologies
- From Japanese 川柳 (senryū). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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!”
“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.”
“Maggie, what we are writing here are mostly senryu. same syllable counts 5-7-5.”
“Haiku and senryu are similar in form, but haiku are about the natural world.”
“Loved the poem, Snob, but technically it's not haiku--it's a senryu.”
“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!”
“The haiku and senryu section has some lovely offerings.”
“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.”
“This is not the book to use if you want to show kids what a haiku or a senryu or even a sonnet is.”
“I have composed fourteen senryu based on well known adages.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘senryu’.
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Irony
A list about iron, irons, and irony.
iron, irons, irony, Jeremy Irons, ferritin, ferruginous duck, ferruginous, ironing, hematite, limonite, magnetite, taconite and 144 more...
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Poetry Terms
April is National Poetry Month. Add your favorite poetry terms to this new list!
alliteration, anapest, alexandrine, caesura, assonance, ballad, blank verse, iamb, conceit, couplet, consonance, dactyl and 30 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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the_grene_kni3t's Words
acuarela, sesquipedalian, capital, métier, chap, cove, guv, guv'nor, ratiocination, transatlantique, ineffable, aural and 142 more...
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poetics
quatrain, couplet, villanelle, scansion, sonnet, foot, meter, iambic pentameter, trochaic, anapestic, dactylic, spondaic and 7 more...
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Gallimaufry
...words to be reassigned as time allows.
vade, viduity, surd, thropple, horary, sorites, ancile, roscid, spraints, birl, marmite, voxel and 68 more...
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Japanese terms
Tweets
Looking for tweets for senryu.
fbharjo an ironic haiku Mar 19, 2012
the_grene_kni3t Five-seven-five but
not about nature; in fact,
often satiric. Dec 29, 2006