They are poems, originally from Japan, with seventeen syllables. Traditionally, the first line has five syllables, the second line has seven and third line has again five.
because first it was formed by a navy family and the part ''old'' was made by his wife as a joke
It helps if they have something in common or a common use. You can compare a puppy to a brick, but it is kind of difficult and pointless.
Of course everybody should know SOMETHING! Even babies! They know how to drink or else they couldn't be able to drink their mom's milk!
the song anything anything was done by the band dramarama
The Art of the Japanese Death Poem: Basho's Last Stanza