One more word about the form
2 August 2009 07:33 pmLike a haiku that,
Awakening from dreams, dreams on
From sleep's closing door,
The tanka's vision lives on
For fourteen syllables more.
—John Hollander, Rhyme's Reason (3rd ed.), p.68
I may have mentioned before how much I love this book. Once or thrice.---L.