Tanka

consist of five syllabic

units containing

thirty-one syllables

in the pattern

5-7-5-7-7.

Some tanka links:  

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~EA8T-MNK/english.html

http://etext.virginia.edu/japanese/

BLUES

"Blues Stanza: A

triplet stanza

derived from

the Black jazz

tradition of

lamentation or

complaint,

rhyming AAa.

Usually written

in loose iambic

pentameter

measures, the

second line

an incremental

repetition of

the first, the

third line a

synthetic

parallel giving

a consequence

of the first two

lines." Turko,

The New Book

of Forms.

Tinker Toy