Which of the following are characteristics of the tanka form?
A. 14 lines and 5 accented syllables per line
B. a rhyme scheme of aba
C. 5 lines and a syllable count of 5, 7, 5, 7, 7
D. a rhyme scheme of abba, cddc, efef, gg
The Japanese tanka is a thirty-one-syllable poem, traditionally written in a single unbroken line. A form of waka, Japanese song or verse, tanka translates as "short song," and is better known in its five-line, 5/7/5/7/7 syllable count form. c is correct
