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Cinquo

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• The Cinquo is a half Crapsey Cinquain.

The Cinquo is:
○ a pentastich, a poem in 5 lines.
○ syllabic, 1-2-3-4-1 syllables per line.
○ unrhymed. 

Favored by jvg
pear
apple
banana
watermelon
grapes

Pasted from http://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/index.php?showtopic=2008#cinquo
My thanks to Judi Van Gorder for years of work on this fine PMO resource.

My example

Short

Short?
Heck yes.
Toward what end?
Brevity I guess.
Yep!

© Lawrencealot – November 22, 2014

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Lanturne or Lanterne

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The Lanturne is a verse of 5 lines shaped like a Japanese
lantern with a syllabic pattern of 1/2/3/4/1.

Must be Centered

Example Poem

Some Lanturnes

One
Two, Three
Look at me.
What do you see?
Me.

Lit
Lantern
Summons some
Nighttime flying
Moths.

Long
leggy
lasses love
lecherous lads’
looks.

Wife
kisses
husband who
is most happy
man.

© Lawrencealot – April, 2012

 

Note I have found both spellings widely used:

lanturne = Poetscornerblog, poemhunter, Shadowpoetry
lanterne = Wikipeidia, poetrymagnumopus, poetrysoup