Haiku = The typical length of haiku appearing in the English-language is 10–14 syllables[1][2] and few have a syllabically symmetrical line arrangement such as 5-7-5 or 3-5-3. which means that a haiku has 3 lines, the first line is 5 syllables, the 2nd line has 7 and the final line has 3 syllables.