Possible Clues:

• What’s in Thai, like our Eastern verse
• Pithy lines covering reduced European country needing revolution
• Three lines that Mike cut in the middle
• Japanese poem of 17 syllables
• Form of poetry / Presented as in this clue / But not the others
• Poetic form similar to tanka
• A lot of bad weather has European country recalled in poem
• Seventeen-syllable work
• Poem, great accomplishment, read out
• Japanese poetry form