haiku

Declared haiku frame

Records the proposed tradition, the source of that designation and the criteria actually applicable to this poem.

1. Which linguistic, historical or contemporary haiku tradition is claimed for this poem? definition
2. Who supplied that classification, and which stated criteria support it? provenance

Genre and work boundary

Records whether senryu, another short-poem form or a linked-verse role offers a competing account of the text.

1. What evidence favours haiku over senryu or another short-poem classification, and where does that distinction remain disputed? boundary
2. Is this an independent poem or a verse whose identity depends on its position in a sequence or composite work? boundary

Exact poem presentation

Records wording, script, line breaks, punctuation and meaningful spacing separately from editorial additions.

1. What source establishes this wording and layout, and which features remain uncertain? provenance
2. Are any title, translation gloss, line breaks or punctuation supplied by an editor rather than part of this version of the poem? boundary

Counting and verbal economy

Records defensible sound counts and identifies wording whose removal or alteration would change rhythm, imagery or meaning.

1. What is the sound-unit count of each segment under an explicit counting method, and which pronunciations make it uncertain? measurement
2. Which words appear necessary to the poem's effects, and what would a proposed compression gain or lose? action

Image and observation

Records what can be perceived in the text and what remains inference about its speaker, place or occasion.

1. Which words establish sensory particulars, movement or a change in attention? definition
2. Which details of the scene are explicit, and which depend on an inferred observer, location or autobiographical event? boundary

Seasonal evidence

Records proposed seasonal references, their geographic and cultural context, and the evidence for their associations.

1. Does a consulted season-word reference or relevant commentary attest the proposed association in the poem's tradition? provenance
2. How do location, hemisphere, calendar or multiple seasonal cues complicate the proposed season? boundary

Cut location and effect

Records candidate cuts without assuming that every line ending is a cut or that every haiku must display the same mechanism.

1. Where does the poem invite a pause or turn, and is the evidence lexical, grammatical, typographic or semantic? definition
2. Does the proposed cut coincide with a line break, cross it or remain ambiguous under plausible readings? boundary

Resonance and reading limits

Records how images or perceptions interact and where explanations would exceed the text.

1. What contrast, echo, shift of scale or other relationship connects the poem's perceptions, and which words support that reading? definition
2. Which alternative readings remain plausible, and what added explanation would close an ambiguity the poem currently preserves? boundary

Revision and translation tradeoffs

Relates versions and records changes to sound, cuts, seasonal associations, imagery and ambiguity.

1. What original or prior version does this text derive from, and who made the revision, translation or adaptation? provenance
2. Which poetic effects are retained, changed or lost, and what evidence supports those judgments? boundary

Haiku use decision

Records the intended audience or venue, applicable constraints and the smallest justified intervention.

1. For the intended reading, workshop or submission, which haiku conventions and presentation requirements must this version satisfy? definition
2. Should this version be retained, annotated, revised or translated, and which observed issue or intended effect justifies that action? action