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.
The largest is the aodaisho (Eta phis virgatus), which sometimes attains a length of 5 ft., but is quite harmless. That is Japanese poetry (eta or tanka). Such couplets were called shi to distinguish them from the pure Japanese eta or lanka.