Cinquains

A Cinquain is a five line poem much like that of the Japanese Haiku. Consisting of five lines,in the form.....

one word or two syllables - subject name
two words or four syllables - description
three words or six syllables - action
four words or eight syllables - description
one word or two syllables-summination


The Cinquain was created by a U.S poet named Adelaide Crapsey Liking the poetry form of the Haiku she adapted it to her own style and named it the Cinquain, based on the French word 'five'


this is a Cinquain written by Crapsey in her new style.......


NOVEMBER NIGHT

Listen ...
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees
And fall.


In 1915, in her collection titled Verse, she included 28 Cinquains, the book was published a year after her death.


When I found this style of poetry I was immediately taken with it. I loved the form and the syllable count, finding it unique and easy to think of many different things I could write in that form.
I also enjoy the slight difficulty of getting your idea down, but still being correct in your syllable count.
I only just started writing most of my poetry in Cinquain form a few months ago, I hope I am doing well :)