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A haiku is a brief (but meaningful) poem that has a main idea.
It was a traditional type of poetry, originating from Japan in East Asia. The subjects of the poems are about nature, often relating to a month/season of the year. Haikus had a syllabic pattern of 5-7-5.
Haiku is an ancient from of poetry which comes from Japan. It contains 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the next, and then 5 in the last.

Most people say that it contains 17 syllables by doing the simple math but actually the Japanese measured the syllables in moras, which determines the stress or timing of a word, so this may alter the syllable count.

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