My music is far
Trapped inside my useless core
Mocking me in every way
My fingers crippled
Over the eighty eight thorns
Burning my soul with questions
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The Sedoka is an unrhymed poem made up of two three-line (katauta) with the following syllable counts: 5/7/7, 5/7/7.
A Sedoka, pair of (katauta) as a single poem, may address the same subject from differing perspectives.
A (katauta) is an unrhymed three-line poem the following syllable counts: 5/7/7.