Changes in national. administrative regions lead virtually automatically to a. change in the NUTS classification; for non-administrative. regions, however, the NUTS Regulation stipulates that. changes must entail a reduction of the standard deviation in. the size (measured in population) of the regions.
Often, tanka read like notes from a diary and convey a single event that has some special significance in the poetâs life or consciousnessâa realization, personal insight, or memory. Spriggsâs poem also shows how the basic structural features of Japanese tanka have been adapted. The pattern of short/long/short/long/long lines is intact, and the use of thirty-one syllables in five lines of 5-7-5-7-7 parallels the pattern of thirty-one sound units of Japanese tanka.
Must all tanka have such a pivot point? Most tanka in English seem to, though it frequently can be so subtle as to go unnoticed. At other times, the pivot is emphatic and surprising. There is, in fact, no requirement for the use of this technique, in English-language or Japanese practice. Its absence does not mean the poem is not a tanka.