Tanka (短歌) is a form of Japanese poetry, an even older form than haiku. It consists of five lines with a pattern of syllables in each line as follows: 5-7-5-7-7. To be exactly, it is contained in waka[?], which consist of tanka, choka, etc. But usually, waka is equall to tanka. Each line contains a separate image but a unifying image runs through the entire poem.
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necessary daylight; for a ray of sunlight shows the play of the
an irresistible light; literally, a golden ray. From this fact you may
whom the King of the French receives at his table, to the red-bearded
meritus Gaudissarts are brought in contact with whims past counting;
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brazen-fronted ballet-dancer, an innocent young girl or a too innocent
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the counter, by the door, in a corner, in the middle of the shop,
holiday. As you look at them, you ask yourself involuntarily, "What
woman's purse, wishes, intentions, and whims are ransacked more
three-quarters. Nothing is lost on these intelligent rogues. As they
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strings, the fashion of the dress, the age of a pair of gloves. They
Victorine IV.; they know a modish gewgaw or a trinket from Froment-
fortune, or character passes unremarked.
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they communicate their conclusions to one another with telegraphic
lip. If you watch them, you are reminded of the sudden outbreak of
another more swiftly than an idea flashes from one shopman's eyes to
Gaudissart advances like a romantic character out of one of Byron's
hundred shawls in fifteen minutes; he turns her head with colors.
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