Completely fails on famous haiku:
柿くへば
鐘が鳴るなり
法隆寺
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#22It thinks the word "service" is three syllables and "chocolate" is four.
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#23It thinks the word "service" is three syllables and "chocolate" is four.
And "describe" is three.
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#24Cool idea. Note that sometimes syllables depend on context. So syllable count I think needs to be a range. Blessed vs “bless-ed” for example Camera can be said cam-ra or cam-er-a for example.
It's also not limited to words pronounced poetically. Some words where both variants are common, like "wicked", have different numbers of syllables depending on meaning. e.g.
Beads of sweat wicked through the wicked witch's black robes a hot summer day
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#25I don't know what a haiku is. can anyone please explain it?
It is a poem.
Not too many words allowed.
Not too few either.
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#26Potato chip bag
Crunchy, like its fried contents
I ate the chip bag
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#27A little pedantic, but: this will tell you if a poem is shaped like the common English conception of a haiku, but it won't tell you if this is a haiku, because a haiku is more than just counting syllables. 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 a…
Plus the translation issues, where you can have an absolute sledgehammer of a haiku that would need to be watered down in order fit the "correct" meter in English:
in kyoto / hearing the cry of the cuckoo / i long for kyoto
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#28It thinks the word "service" is three syllables and "chocolate" is four.
AFAICT metric sillables basically count the vowel sounds so service is two and chocolate is two or thre: "ser-vis" (ˈsɜːvɪs) and "chok-lait" or "cho-ko-lait" (ˈʧɔklət or ˈʧɔkolət).
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#29a 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)
isn't surely 2 sillables?
That's how the "Don't call me Shirley" joke works in "Airplane!"
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#30It doesn’t work for actual Japanese haiku.