| Short poem |
| Basho work |
| Terse verse |
| 3-line poem |
| 5-7-5 verse |
| Short verse |
| Type of poem |
| Eastern verse |
| Basho's forte |
| Oriental poem |
| Unrhymed poem |
| Japanese poem |
| Japanese verse |
| Japanese poetry |
| Senryu's cousin |
| Three-line opus |
| Very short poem |
| One-stanza poem |
| Three-line work |
| Three-line poem |
| 17-syllable work |
| Three-line verse |
| 17-syllable poem |
| Basho composition |
| Matsuo Basho work |
| Three-phrase poem |
| 17-syllable verse |
| Epigrammatic verse |
| Bit of terse verse |
| Japanese verse form |
| Exercise in brevity |
| 17-syllable creation |
| Japanese terse verse |
| Short Japanese verse |
| Poem of 17 syllables |
| Narrowly defined poem |
| Type of Japanese poem |
| 17-syllable verse form |
| Narrowly defined verse |
| Poem with 17 syllables |
| Form of Japanese poetry |
| Short poem about nature |
| Traditional three-liner |
| Verse with 17 syllables |
| Seventeen-syllable poem |
| Japanese three-line poem |
| Verse often about nature |
| Seventeen-syllable verse |
| Three-line Japanese poem |
| 17-syllable Japanese poem |
| Japanese 17-syllable poem |
| Symmetrical Japanese poem |
| Three-line Japanese verse |
| Japanese three-line verse |
| Evocative three-line verse |
| Specifically designed poem |
| 17-syllable form of poetry |
| Seventeen-syllable creation |
| Poetic genre of Matsuo Basho |
| Poem with exactly 17 syllables |
| Poetic form inspired by nature |
| Seventeen-syllable poetry form |
| Verse often inspired by nature |
| 17-syllable Japanese verse form |
| Japanese poem with 17 syllables |
| Its middle line is heptasyllabic |
| Poem read in a Zen garden, perhaps |
| Japanese poem of seventeen syllables |
| Stylised Japanese poem of 17 syllables |
| Writing form even more constrained than a tweet |
| A poem like this / Of 17 syllables / Split 5-7-5 |
| Poem name whose singular and plural forms are the same |
| A poetry form/With seventeen syllables/And only three lines |
| Form of poetry / Presented as in this clue / But not the others |
| The clue for this word, while not all that poetic, is an example |
| One may be written / Just like this clue is written / But a lot better |
| Poem patterned like / the one featured in this clue / [padding out the rest] |
| An old silent pond / A frog jumps into the pond / Splash! Silence again," e.g. |
| Poem like "The swallow flies up / Into a blue evening sky, / Summer's small herald |