Tanka
noun, plural tankas, tanka. Prosody.
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a Japanese poem consisting of 31 syllables in 5 lines, with 5 syllables in the first and third lines and 7 in the others.
noun (pl) -kas, -ka
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a Japanese verse form consisting of five lines, the first and third having five syllables, the others seven
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