Gold Digger - (A dodoitsu)
By luigi_pagano
Mon, 06 Jan 2020
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He loved her, she hated him.
She wouldn't tell him to his face
that he was old, fat and bald
but loved his fortune.
© Luigi Pagano 2020
Dodoitsu (都々逸) is a form of Japanese poetry developed towards the end of the Edo period. Often concerning love or work, and usually comical, Dodoitsu poems consist of four lines with the moraic structure 7-7-7-5 and no rhyme for a total of 26 morae, making it one of the longer Japanese forms. The form, tone and structure of Dodoitsu derive from Japanese folk song traditions.
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'One of the longer Japanese
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'One of the longer Japanese forms'
It's still not very long. Any more? It makes me want to read Japanese poetry.
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