Japanese Tankas
are poems consisting of five
lines of thirty-one syll-
ables completing moods through
use of metaphors and images.

That definition
had the five lines of thirty-one
syllables in the
following order: 5,7,
5,7,7 as do these lines.

However, Tanka
Plus poems I make up consist
of seven lines of
a full forty-three syllab-
les in the order
of 5,7,5,7,5,7,
7 without a metaphor.