17 Syllables
Posted on February 17, 2008
I found this cool blog that has a page called sentences. The introduction to the page is a weird comment on the 17 syllable American sentence that I didn’t really understand, but I love the sentences the blogger wrote. (The blog is called The Polka Dot Witch Blog if you want to go take a look.)
I want to write 17 syllable sentences. Here I go:
Weekend chores like car washing, laundry, and taxes are necessary.
Deer beware: 5 roses are transplanted behind a fence; 3 to go.
Ashley’s cedar tree is mulched with leaf and bark; her headstone is in place.
Two ravens waddled and flirted in the parking lot at 6 am.
If the sentences sound Haiku-like, that’s because haiku is also 17 syllables: 5+7+5=17.
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