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The Cinquain
by Peggy Bertrand
copyright 02-15-2002


Age Rating: 7 to 127

 
Cinquain is a form of poetry.
It is a short unrhymed poem consisting
of twenty-two syllables distributed as
2-4-6-8-2
In 5 lines

Coastal
Turtles on shore
Laying their eggs in sand
Sea turtle leaves eggs crawls to sea
Nature

This form is easy and can be fun. It allows you to tell a story or just mixed up lines within the poem.


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11-25-2005 Mehrina B.    

Thanks for clearing that up. Everyone says something different. Like some say that a particular line has to be about this, or there only has to be 8 lines in the poem and it's a cinquain. The last one is really off.
09-21-2002 Dixie Kincaid    

This poem is very simple an to heart. There's so much you can read into in these few lines. Nice way of telling people about the giant sea turtles. Loved it. DIXIE LEE
07-21-2002 Kathy Anderson    

There are so many forms of forms that I don't believe we can ever list them all in one website. Can we? I know of some celtic forms that aren't here. Connachlonn is one such form. I had forgotten about the form you wrote of here. Thanks for the refresher!!! *hugs*
02-16-2002 Robert Betts    

I just located my reference for the cinquain. The form Peggy described (1,2,3,4 ,1 iambs) was invented by Adelaide Crapsey. ("The Complete Rhyming Dictionary", Clement Wood, 1991 Dell Publishing, p. 48)
02-16-2002 Peggy Bertrand    

Thank you Robert for futher info on the form I apperciate it. peggy
02-15-2002 Robert Betts    

As David intimated, the cinquain has other forms. The term "cinquain" comes from... French? meaning five. The name actually refers to the number of lines. Hence, any sylable or rhyming pattern is permissible. The form which you have illusteated, however is the most commonly used and known.
02-15-2002 Bob Church    

Thanks, Peggy. I didn't know this...
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