Japanese poetry, based on syllables rather than accentuated stresses because in its original language the words are monosyllabic.  I think our own language with its stresses, lifts and falls of the words etc lends itself to more beautiful poetry.    The syllabic count is:  first line 5, second line 7 and third line 5.  Much easier to write than our own metred poetry.  See:  http://www.haiku-plus.de/englisch/haiku-e.html