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All the orangutans are ready for a nap in the sleepy depths of the afternoon--all except one. Written in a series of linked poems in the tanka style. Engle also includes a note describing tanka poetry, an ancient Japanese format; the modern form is unrhymed and consists of five lines (short, long, short, long, long) of linked poems. Waka (which includes tanka) was a general term for poetry composed in Japanese & refers to poetry in a 5-7-5-7-7 metre. IL Pres-2. | |