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Do you really know? (tanka).
Do you really know
as much as you say you do
about you and me?
How can you remain so calm
As our relationship dies?
Tanka-The basic technique of writing a Tanka poem is that it has 31 syllables with 5 lines. The order of the syllables are A,B,A,B,B. This is how people in America write Tanka poetry; however, in Japan it would be written in one straight line and with more strict numbers, usually, 5,7,5,7,7. When reading aloud this type of poetry, you need two people.One person reads the first verse and the other reads the next.
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