The Recently Learned Difference Between Haiku and Senryu

Senryu: According to Merriam-Webster, “a 3-line unrhymed Japanese poem structurally similar to haiku but treating human nature usually in an ironic or satiric vein.”

Haiku

Goodbye to brown hills,
trees who scrubbed the spring blue sky
bristled like hedgehogs.

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Senryu

There are things I’ll miss:
Burping contests at dinner
isn’t one of them.

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