五ご七しち調ちょう

noun

five-seven syllable meter

Refers to the traditional Japanese poetic meter based on alternating lines of five and seven syllables, as used in waka and other classical forms.

• 和わ歌かは五ご七しち調ちょうを基き本ほんとしている。

  Waka poetry is fundamentally based on the five-seven syllable meter.

• この詩しは五ご七しち調ちょうで書かかれている。

  This poem is written in five-seven syllable meter.