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Within poetry, a cinquain or even quintain occurs as 5 line stanza, varied in rhyme and line, usually using a rhyme scheme ababb. An case of cinquain is the as punishment stanza from either Robert Browning's poem "Porphyria's Lover":

Murmuring how else she loved us -- she As well frail, for tons her heart's endeavour, To placed its struggling passion free From either pride, & vainer ties dissever, & give herself to pine tree state for ever.

Cinquain likewise has the supplementary specialised meaning. Under a influence of Japanese poetry, the U.s. poet Adelaide Crapsey developed the poetic form she besides known as a "cinquain". Hers occurs as short, unrimed verse form of twenty-2Deuce syllables, 5 lines of Deuce, Quatern, Sextet, Octad, 2 syllables severally.

Her cinquains were published posthumously inside 1915 in her The Complete Poems. Cinquains became better known through the act of Carl Sandburg (Cornhuskers, 1918) and Louis Utermeyer (Modern American Poetry, 1919). On this text is the Crapsey cinquain "Triad":

These be 3 silent items: A falling snow... a hour Prior to a dawn... a mouth of one Upright dead.

University of Rochester Library: The Adelaide Crapsey Papers, 1978-1934
A short biography of Adelaide Crapsey; catalogue of papers, scrapbooks, correspondence, and manuscripts house at UR Library's Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. Appropriate resource for scholars.

WRC Poetry in Forms Series -- Part One: Cinquain
A brief guide to writing in the Crapsey form, with contemporary examples by John Hewitt, editor of the Writer's Resource Center.

Cinquains for the New Millennium
"Cinquains for the Lapsed Atheist," an exploration of "Renoir's Palette," cinquain links, more ... from Los Angeles poet Billie Dee.

CinquainPoets
An online community of cinquain poets who meet in an open membership e-list on Yahoo!Groups.

American Verse Project - Adelaide Crapsey
The complete works of Adelaide Crapsey, mother of the cinquain form.

AMAZE: The Cinquain Journal
Dedicated to developing, promoting, and publishing cinquains in the traditional form established by Adelaide Crapsey as well as innovative forms such as mirror cinquains and cinquain cycles or sequences.

Cinquain
A description of the form with examples by Suzanne Honour.

Personality Quiz - What Poetry Form Am I?
A cinquain that describes the "personality" of a cinquain. With html code for transferring the cinquain to your site and links to "personality quizzes" for other poetic forms.

AHA! Poetry: Cinquain
A description of the form with numerous examples by Jeanne Cassler, Thomas D. Greer, and Alan Reynolds.






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