Analysis of Haiku Art Form



Japanese Haiku.
Pivotal to its culture.
This three-line poem.

It highlights nature.
Spring, Summer, Winter or Fall.
Meditatively.

Its simplicity
is so uniquely Zen form;
for one’s reflection.

Haiku poetics
is Art of syllogism.
With linguistic ploy.

Wittgenstein would say.
And Barthes, too, acknowledge, that
Haiku has great form.

Like a cup of tea.
In a Japanese tea house.
Offered by the host.

Warming appetites.
Haiku is creative art.
Brevity distilled.

A three-line haiku.
With premise and conclusion.
Sequenced as montage.

Haiku principles.
Governed aesthetically.
Are fundamental.

Poetry as wit
rendered in form of Haiku
for all four seasons.


Scheme ABC BDD EFG HCX HXF EHX HXX AGX HEX XAH
Poetic Form Etheree  (37%)
Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 0110 1001110 11110 1110 1101011 1 10100 1101011 11010 101 1111 10101 111 0110101 10111 10111 000111 10101 1010 1010101 10001 01110 1100010 1101 10100 100100 1010 10011 1001110 11110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 661
Words 134
Sentences 24
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3
Lines Amount 30
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 52
Words per stanza (avg) 10

About this poem

French literary theorist, philosopher, critic and semiotician Roland Barthes, described poetry, from a semiotic perspective, as containing signifiers for that which is filled with “concentrated emotion” yet inexpressively signified. Likewise, Austrian-British philosopher, logician and mathematician Ludwig Wittgenstein, was impressed by the expressive system of the haiku poetic art form. This haiku poem, entitled “Haiku Art Form,” is extended into six stanzas in order to more fully describe the characteristics of the Japanese haiku art form.  

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Written on January 12, 2022

Submitted by karlcfolkes on January 12, 2022

Modified by karlcfolkes on May 05, 2023

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Karl Constantine FOLKES

Retired educator of Jamaican ancestry with a lifelong interest in composing poetry dealing particularly with the metaphysics of self-reflection; completed a dissertation in Children’s Literature in 1991 at New York University entitled: An Analysis of Wilhelm Grimm’s ‘Liebe Mili’ (translated into English as “Dear Mili”), Employing Von Franzian Methodological Processes of Analytical Psychology. The subject of the dissertation concerned the process of Individuation. more…

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