Senryu · Funny
The Meeting
the meeting could have
been an email — forty smiles
thinking the same thing
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Quick facts
- Poem
- The Meeting
- Poet
- The QuillOak Editors
- Length
- 3 lines
- Form
- Senryu, Short Poems
- Themes
- Funny, Short
Craft notes
How this poem works
Measured from the text on this page, not copied from a summary. Counts are approximate: syllables and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, which models General American English, so dialect, older pronunciation, and performance can all change what you hear.
- Shape
- 3 lines · one 3-line stanza
- End rhyme
- No regular perfect end rhyme. The poem may still be using slant rhyme, assonance, or internal echo, which this check does not score.
- Line length
- Mostly 5-syllable lines.
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Text, source & rights
A traceable edition
Original QuillOak text. Personal sharing is permitted; other reuse requires permission.
- Author record
- The QuillOak Editorstoday
- Source record
- QuillOak originalThe Meeting, authored for QuillOak by The Quillery
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 41da34ff7b059948…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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