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This is fun! I randomly* chose articles and reviewed them with modified* haiku.

The third line creates disconnect from the prior two, inviting you to bridge the gap, paralleling the 切れ字 kireji without recreating it entirely.

If you're like me, you're sometimes not sure how to engage with poetry. If you feel that way, I encourage you to do whatever you feel like or find fun or valuable.

As people who have used random on Wikipedia may know, it tends to return very obscure articles. I took a random article, used the first word in the text I actually understood well enough to review, and took that article (or its closest match) as my review.

To my understanding, there is not one authoritative way to pursue the haiku form in English. I took form elements I liked, including some flexibility. Here is the form I use, where S represents a strong syllable and w represents a weak one.

S w S /
S w S w S OR w S w S OR S w S w /
free, but fewer syllables than line 2, and neighboring syllables do not share emphasis level

I use / because, on the website, not all text formatting of reviews shows my line breaks.

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