Example

EXAMPLE

Romanized Transliteration:

                Koe nakuba
                Sagi koso yuki no
                Hitotsurane.

Literal Pidgin-English Version:

                Voice if-were-not
                White-herons only snow's
                One-line-see?

Translation in Haiku-Form:

                If they gave no cry,             (5syllables)
                See, those white herons would be (7syllables)
                But one line of snow!            (5syllables)

Poetic Paraphrase into Couplet:

                THE VOICE OF SNOW
                That flight of egrets, if they gave no cry,
                Would be a streak of snow across the sky.