Most people think the structure is 5-7-5 -- three lines of five, seven and five syllables. Wrong. "Haiku is seldom in English, the 5-7-5 format as it's always taught in schools," Forges-Ryan says.

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Japanese haiku poets indeed employ a 5-7-5 format but these numbers apply to sounds, not syllables. Seventeen English syllables do not equate 17 sounds in the Japanese language.

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