For 10 points, what verse form descended from the Renga is illustrated by works in the book The Narrow Road to the Deep North, written by Basho, and which comprises three lines with 5, 7, and 5 syllables?
A progenitor of this form, the "waka," was slightly longer. The best-known author of works in this form wrote a number of them during a trip on which he wrote a journal titled Travels of a Well Worn Satchel. That author of this verse form wrote one that begins "A banana plant in the autumn gale," describing a banana tree outside his hut that provided his pen name. For 10 points, what verse form descended from the Renga is illustrated by works in the book The Narrow Road to the Deep North, written by Basho, and which comprises three lines with 5, 7, and 5 syllables?
A progenitor of this form, the "waka," was slightly longer. The best-known author of works in this form wrote a number of them during a trip on which he wrote a journal titled Travels of a Well Worn Satchel.
haiku