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List: Cinquain


Cinquain is a short, usually unrhymed poem consisting of twenty-two syllables distributed
as 2, 4, 6, 8, 2, in five lines. It was developed by the Imagist poet, Adelaide Crapsey.
(For further information, please scroll down for an article on Cinquain from the SP Quill
Quarterly Magazine written by Deborah P Kolodji.)

Another form, sometimes used by school teachers to teach grammar, is as follows:

Line 1: Noun
Line 2: Description of Noun
Line 3: Action
Line 4: Feeling or Effect
Line 5: Synonym of the initial noun.


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  • Heat of Passion
    32 lines, 3 comments, on Nov 23 7:53 AM 2008. In Adult, Erotica
  • Two Hawks In Love
    We watch
    as two hawks soar
    29 lines, 6 comments, on Dec 21 11:24 AM 2008. In Love, Nature
  • Remembrance
    Soft snow
    on white lilies
    12 lines, 4 comments, on Jan 24 9:27 PM
  • As One In Love
    Touch me
    with the softness
    32 lines, 4 comments, on Mar 14 12:23 AM
  • My Love
    Wind song
    flowing to me
    36 lines, 3 comments, on May 7 10:54 PM. In Love
  • No More
    No more
    waiting for love
    35 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 1 9:00 PM. In Love
  • To Love
    To love
    You like I do
    24 lines, 2 comments, on Sep 6 11:26 AM. In Love
  • October
    valleys
    in golden hue
    5 lines, 4 comments, on Oct 24 9:58 AM. In Nature
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