treated as separate lines when romanized or translated) usually with the following pattern of on (often treated as, roughly, the number of syllables per unit or line):
:5-7-5-7-7.

The 5-7-5 is called the , and the 7-7 is called the . Sometimes the distinction between Waka and Tanka are drawn on where the division is placed, either after the first couplet or after the first tercet,