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Sonnet 30 By Chiyogo And Basho Comparison
1 The two forms of poetry I will be analyzing in this essay is the Sonnet 30 by William Shakespeare and Three Haiku by Bashō and Chiyogo. Haiku’s are usually short and three line poems which originated from Japan. A sonnet is a poem around 14 lines and has around 10 syllables. Although both types of poems are very different in terms of how they are set up and classified, they also share many similarities. In the three haiku, one by Bashō and two by Chiyogo, all three poems consist of three lines. None of the words in the lines rhyme in English, as the words are not made to rhyme but to mean something. The structure of the haiku’s displays a short message while getting a point across at the same time. For example, the first
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