A haiku is a short closed form of poetry that relies on a syllable pattern. It usually has five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third and final line, as in this ...

In metrical poetry, however, poets don’t count the number of syllables in each line; they count the number of ‘stresses’. Within poetry the beat is the pattern of stresses within a line of ...

The second syllable ‘teen’ is long and clear. It’s the stressed syllable. Knowing these stress patterns can help you hear the difference between words that sound the same. Let’s put it all ...

Next, for the verbs that end with the vowel "I" in the syllable just before MASU, there are two patterns. One pattern is to change MASU to RO. "To get up," OKIMASU, becomes OKIRO (Get up!).

For example, TABEMASU (to eat), becomes TABERU. Next, if a verb has the vowel I in its syllable just before MASU, there are two patterns for this conjugation. For one, you remove MASU, and add RU.