Cinquain. A Crapsey cinquain. Remeber it’s one of the syllabic poetry forms I mentioned in last week’s post.
The Crapsey cinquain was developed by a woman named Adelaide Crapsey, an American poet. As per its name, the cinquain has five lines. The Crapsey cinquain follows a strict syllabic form:
Line 1 – 2 syllables
Line 2 – 4 syllables
Line 3 – 6 syllables
Line 4 – 8 syllables
Line 5 – 2 syllables.
A single siquain can stand on its own or it can be used along with additional cinquains as a stanza of a longer poem.
For one example, you can see “American Princess” in my own poetry collection, Windsong and Other Poems.
Additionally, here is an example just for this. (This is a rough draft and not finished in any way.)
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