Here is a 5-line tanka for your reading pleasure. 🙂
Perseverance
Focus attention
On attainment of success
Determination
The goal is within your reach
Believe that you can achieve
An original tanka by
Khor Hui Min
31 July 2014
Poetic style
This poem was written in the style of a tanka. A tanka is a Japanese poem (also known as a waka or uta). A tanka poem is similar to a haiku poem, but has two additional lines.
A tanka has 5 lines and 31 syllables. The structure is as follows:
Line 1 – 5 syllables
Line 2 – 7 syllables
Line 3 – 5 syllables
Line 4 – 7 syllables
Line 5 – 7 syllables
I’ve shown my poem with the number of syllables per line as below:
(5) Focus attention
(7) On attainment of success
(5) Determination
(7) The goal is within your reach
(7) Believe that you can achieve
To find out more about tanka poems, visit the Young Writers’ Website.
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