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There are seventeen syllables in this verse form, and only three lines. Lines one and three have five syllables each while the second has seven. None of the lines can rhyme, and the preferred subject matter is nature. Increasingly though, people today write haiku about their culture. Did you know that the singular and plural of "haiku" are the same? If everybody in the world wrote a haiku, who would read them all?

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