Haiku Validator

  a haiku once writ  
  needs validation surely  
  validator's broke  

  Line 1 - 5 / 5  
  a(1) haiku(2) once(1) writ(1)  
  Line 2 - 8 / 7  
  needs(1) validation(4) surely(3)  
  Line 3 - 6 / 5  
  validator's(4) broke(2)

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...

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

haiku is. can anyone

please explain it?

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.