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 translator, George Voevdica, himself a poet adapts Japanese poetry to the western poetry. So, in this translation tanka poems have rhythm, rhyme and titles: Clouds, Smiling death, Life, In vain, A girl say.e noted that since 1992 poets from ConstanÈa publish their poems in magazines and books both in Roumanian and English. Among tanka authors of Haiku Society of ConstanÈa particularly remarkable are Radu Patrichi, Stela Moise, Alexandra Flora Munteanu and Ana Ruse.