My current understanding of a cinquain is a five-line poem with lines containing the following number of syllables: 2/4/6/8/2
It's a fun form to play leap-poem with, doing a first line-last line repeat. I've found it a great way to let my hair down and just write interactively whatever comes (a great way to get the muse-ical juices flowing
).Examples: http://allpoetry.com/list/65841-FORM---Cinquain
Cinquain Garland (per individuality):
A six stanza cinquain sequence where the final cinquain is formed from a line from each of the previous cinquains.
With each cinquain written you take a line to make cinquain 6. So cinquain 1 you take line one for cinquain 6. Cinquain 2 you take line 2 and put that as line two for cinquain 6. Cinquain 3 you take line 3 and use that as line 3 in cinquain 6, and so on until you have written 5 cinquains, and a final 6th cinquain made up from a line from the 5
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