Syllables

It doesn’t look like a hokku: you need more syllables.

How many syllables does this word have?

Many's the time my mates were so yarn-hungry they had me falling asleep in the middle of a tale, halfway through a sentence, between syllables.

The word Brasilia has four syllables and eight letters.

This word has three syllables.

The word "family" has 3 syllables.

Each sentence has its syllables' number.

Each sentence has its syllables.

This sentence has eight syllables.

Try to come up with a sentence that has fifteen syllables.