Profg wrote:
Marsh Wrens Tanka
by C J Gregory
music of marsh wrens
songs not inconspicuous
epigrammatic
thrills sent singing rattling trills
belligerent agenda
(As a rule, one line of tanka has thirty- one syllables, which break down into five parts. The first and third parts have five syllables each, and the rest have seven (that is, 5-7-5-7-7). )