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C: Cinquain

Posted by ipsyb on

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Cinquain is a short, usually unrhymed poem consisting of twenty-two syllables 2, 4, 6, 8 and 2 in five lines.

Bitter-sweet

Are memories

I gather, my soul feeds

Drumming at walls I have built, now

Weakened.

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  1. Liam says:
    April 3, 2018 at 21:55

    There’s power in the stark minimalism of syllables building up to 8and then suddenly returning to 2.

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    1. ipsyb says:
      April 4, 2018 at 12:21

      Yes. And I had fun doing this.

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  2. Jacqui Murray says:
    April 3, 2018 at 20:03

    I use Cinquains with my students for all the reasons you mentioned. They’re a nice entre into writing poetry.

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  3. rosemawrites says:
    April 3, 2018 at 13:48

    you wrote with a fluid flow. love this. and im doing an a to z of forms too! yay!

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    1. ipsyb says:
      April 4, 2018 at 12:22

      Thank you! Will drop by soon.

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      1. rosemawrites says:
        April 6, 2018 at 13:07

        sure!

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