Today while I was reading about Buddhism, I wrote a somewhat silly poem. It is short.
O World, knock me
down with yer shaman woman/
Zen guy stick -- CRACK -- AH!
But because it is a haiku, this poem spawned a deeper question about which I would like the opinion of you fine people:
"World": Two syllables or one?
6 comments:
AHAHA
Hands down best Haiku I've read since the one about Spaghetti.
World= one syllable
from a purely linguistic standpoint "world" is definitely one syllable.
consonant = (c) vowel = V
parentheses = an optional element
all English syllables = (c)(c)(c)V(c)(c)(c)
world = (c)V(c)(c)(c)
you could construe world as having two syllables if you consider L to be a vowel, which it is in other languages but sadly not in English.
This covers Arielle's "too much information" post of the day.
thanks guys! well, since English refuses to be more like Spanish or Welsh, I'll just make it 17 syllables by hoping people will pronounce the slash mark.
wait, what's the spaghetti haiku?
I wish I could remember the spaghetti haiku, all I remember is that someone in my fourth grade class wrote it.
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