The Tanka form has five unrhymed lines often following a specific syllable count
of 5-7-5-7-7. However, this is not required but a helpful guide. A short-long-short-long-long structure or even just free form structure using five lines can be used. In this piece the is format of 4-7-5-6-7 (29 syllables).

Thank you so much for reading my poem.

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