Senryu Poetry Form

Senryu, a Japanese poetry form, is normally written in three lines of 5, 7, 5 syllables. It can also be a three-line poem with 17 syllables or less. A single senryu contains only one stanza of one three-line verse, while a senryu string contains more the one senryu. The difference between a senryu is the subject. The natural world is the subject of the haiku, while the subject of senryu is human nature. The first line of the senryu is the subject and the last two are the action of the poem.