Haiku Validator
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A Haiku Validator web app was shared, sparking discussion on the nuances of haiku poetry and the challenges of syllable counting in NLP.
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You can check the override list at https://haikuvalidator.com/overrides and if you have any suggestions feel free to let me know any words that are broken.
This is my first time making a web app. Hoping that someone finds it fun / useful.
Seems like a general problem with words ending in 'e'
Nice and simple, very nice app.
I need one to test this app
Love the internet!
Words for Haiku I reach for
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Aside from the fact that "syllables" is not exactly the unit being counted in haiku, there are also considerations of theme, tone, and a sort of "open-ended-ness" – among other considerations.
This article served as my introduction to the actual complexities of haiku: https://forgottenpoets.substack.com/p/haiku-thursdays-one-pl...
in kyoto / hearing the cry of the cuckoo / i long for kyoto
Hacker news haikus
Despite reading this substack
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need a season word (kigo).
It's true; look it up.
As long as you have some fun
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needn't have seventeen morae
in total, either.
See, e.g., Bashō's crow haiku, arguably one of the genre-defining poems [0]. Plus, English is on average terser than Japanese; I've read somewhere that, in English, 3-5-3 syllables pack roughly the same amount of content as the Japanese 5-7-5.
[0]: https://matsuobashohaiku.home.blog/2020/11/21/upon-a-withere...
haiku is. can anyone
please explain it?
Not too many words allowed.
Not too few either.
Blessed vs “bless-ed” for example
Camera can be said cam-ra or cam-er-a for example.
Beads of sweat wicked through the wicked witch's black robes a hot summer day
Crunchy, like its fried contents
I ate the chip bag
>>> import syllables
>>> syllables.estimate('estimate')
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Doesn't matter in the context of making a fun web app though, cool idea!
now my fingers are greasy
as i type this
Line 1
5 / 5
i(1) just(1) ate(1) bacon(2)
Line 2
7 / 7
now(1) my(1) fingers(2) are(1) greasy(2)
Line 3
5 / 5
as(1) i(1) type(2) this(1)
I might have greasy fingers but that ain't right
柿くへば
鐘が鳴るなり
法隆寺
But Validator works on sane languages too:
Hope that it validates
and smile when it does.
Edit: Little tools like this are nice. It's simple, it works, and it's just one of those little toys that people can use to have simple fun.