Now let's look at another poetry form. Haiku Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry. It is usually about a moment in nature that impressed the writer, and can describe an animal, the weather, flowers, trees. It traditionally included a word that told the reader what season was being described. If you have trouble deciding how many syllables a word has, look it up in the dictionary.
Good dictionaries divide words up into syllables.
If a line isn't working out in exactly the right number of syllables, try fewer or more syllables. If you have to decide between the right number of syllables and what sounds good, choose what sounds good. This book has many fine examples and writing exercises that show you how to write haiku, and a list of other books about haiku.