sedōka

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Sedōka is a classical Japanese poetic form consisting of paired, head-repeated verses that was popular in early anthologies such as the Man'yōshū.

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Label Occurrences
sedōka canonical 1

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Statements (35)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Japanese poetic form
classical Japanese poetry
waka form
category Japanese literature
classical literature
countryOfOrigin Japan
culturalContext court poetry
Yamato period
surface form: early imperial Japan
documentedIn Japanese philological studies
histories of Japanese poetry
etymology Japanese term meaning "head-repeated song" or "head-repeated poem"
feature dialogic or responsive structure
often composed as a pair of matching stanzas
repetition of the first part (head) of a verse
floruit Yamato period
surface form: Asuka period

Nara period
genre poetry
hasFormType short poem
historicalStatus largely obsolete form
rarely used in later Japanese poetry
language Classical Japanese
lineCountPerVerse 3 lines
poeticMeter 5-7-7 / 5-7-7 paired structure
5-7-7 syllable pattern
relatedTo bussokusekika
chōka
tanka
structure head-repeated verses
paired verses
syllablePatternPerVerse 5-7-7 morae
totalLineCount 6 lines
usedIn Kojiki
Man'yōshū
early Japanese anthologies
verseCount 2 verses

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Man'yōshū contains sedōka