A minor Japanese verse form of two three-line units, each in a 5-7-7 syllable pattern, traditionally understood as a paired call-and-response form, sometimes voicing two different speakers, that appears alongside the choka and tanka in the Man'yoshu but never became a mainstream classical form.
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Place of OriginJapan, Nara period (8th century). 1 StructureTwo three-line units of 5-7-7 syllables each, six lines and thirty-eight syllables in total. 1 Notable ExampleSedoka preserved in the Man'yoshu anthology, several attributed to anonymous folk poets. 1 Connections
Form Of Genre
Source The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
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1. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
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