Historically, haiku stem from twelfth-century renga (literally “linked songs” or “linked verses” —the word for poem and song in Japanese is the same), an elegant literary pastime in which poets, singly or in groups, improvised connecting stanzas to create long poems of up to 10,000 verses. Renga were interlocking chains of 17 syllables (5-7-5), preceded or followed by 14 syllables (7-7), with each tercet and couplet producing a poem in itself.
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