Poll of the Day > IT (book) question *spoilers in tags please*

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Is it ever acknowledged that Ben fucked up the haiku he wrote to Beverly at the library? It's

Your hair is winter fire,
January embers.
My heart burns there, too.

That middle line is 6 syllables, not 7.

Traditional haiku weren't always 5-7-5, and syllables in English are different than the similar Japanese concept. The strict 5-7-5 syllables thing is an English convention in a way

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku#Syllables_or_on_in_haiku

I don't remember them every mentioning the syllables in the book though, no
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Dammit