Cinq-Cinquain
Type: | Structure, Metrical Requirement, Stanzaic |
Description: | A poem of five cinquains. |
Schematic: | xx xxxx xxxxxx xxxxxxxx xx And repeat four more times. |
Rhythm/Stanza Length: | 5 |
Line/Poem Length: | 25 |
Status: | Incomplete |
See Also: |
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My thanks to Charles L. Weatherford for the above.
Related forms: Baxter’s Hexastitch, Butterfly Cinquain, Cinquetun, Cinquino, Crapsey Cinquain, CinqCinquain, Cinquain Chain, Cinquain Swirl, Didactic Cinquain, Mirror Cinquain, Oddquain Butterfly, Standard Cinquain, The Balance
A poem of 25 lines.
Syllabic: 2/4/6/8/2
Centered
Unrhymed
My example poem
Within the Bounds? (Cinq-Cinquain)
Thinking
of repeating
some rhymes in every verse
I know I can but should I now
Pray tell?
Sinking
self-defeating
doubts here would make it worse,
I’ll proceed- rhyming anyhow.
Oh hell.
Drinking
while I’m beating
time, now seems so perverse,
although the rules don’t disallow
Oh well.
Shrinking
from a fleeting
desire to intersperse
some lyricism here and now
to quell
stinking
doubts competing
that I’m cheating where terse
is sought and I use rhyme somehow
as well.
© Lawrencealot – February 16, 2014
I think this poems proves you ought not so something
Just because you can.