Listening to this song tonight, which I’ve always liked, I suddenly realized that its verses are haikus

I always sensed that its structure was different from most other songs, and I’ve also always found the lyrics evocatively poetic. But never till this moment did it occur to me that I was hearing a haiku. I was talking about Japanese death poems with a colleague at work this past week (Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_poem), or more to the point, he was talking to me, as he’s an expert who has translated many of them into English, so I probably had haiku and similar poetic forms on the brain tonight. Anyway, give a listen to Frank Sinatra, and see if you agree!