A Haiku.
Seventeen
No. It doesn't have seventeen syllables.
haiku
There are three syllables in the word seventeen. You can tell by the way you say it... SE - VEN - TEEN 1 2 3
"Seventeen Syllables in a Haiku Poem". 17 = Syllables in a Haiku Poem
Three lines, seventeen syllables. 5-7-5
Haiku
Seventeen Syllables by Hisaye Yamamoto is about Japanese immigrants and the difficult time they had when coming to the United States. It is also about the clash of cultural differences.
A traditional Japanese haiku has three lines. The first and third lines have five syllables, while the second line has seven syllables. They do not usually rhyme but on can. As the short answer to your question there are seventeen syllables.
Seventeen
Seventeen
This is a haiku, if by 'sounds' you mean syllables.