It doesn’t look like a hokku: you need more syllables.
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Syllables
//ˈsɪləbl̩z//
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How many syllables does this word have?
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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.
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The word Brasilia has four syllables and eight letters.
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