A lecturer at the College of Education for Girls participates in discussing a master’s thesis on the metrical structure of some selected ancient and modern haiku poems in the English language: an audio study.

Dr. Alaa Abdel-Imam Abdel-Zahra from the College of Education for Girls participated in discussing her master’s thesis (The metric structure of some selected ancient and modern haiku poems in the English language: a phonetic study) by researcher Abbas Jawad Hamid in the English Language Department at the College of Education for the Humanities at the University of Basra.

The study dealt with clarifying the concepts of metric theory and haiku poems and the extent of the importance of these two concepts in English language and literature, and clarifying the importance of addressing these two topics.

The study dealt with the analysis of the patterns of stress in words and sentences in some selected haiku poems in the English language according to the metric theory of (Hayes) 1995. The universality of this theory was demonstrated through the possibility of analyzing the metric structure of words and phrases in many languages.

In conclusion, it turns out that modern haiku and traditional haiku differ from each other in the number of syllables, seasonal references, and focus on human themes. She also points out that both pausing and continuing are effective techniques in haiku.