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Love Crapsey Cinquain

Love Crapsey Cinquain

Marriage
Love connection
Leading to pure madness
Sometimes ending in murder
Soul mates

Cinquain is any five-line poem or stanza. However, in her attempts to adapt Japanese traditions to the English language, Adelaide Crapsey developed a specific pattern which carries her name. Usually unrhymed, the structure consists of two syllables, four syllables, six syllables, eight syllables, two syllables, as described and demonstrated in the following links:


http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/cinquain.html

Line 1: 2 Noun
Line 2: 4 Description of Noun
Line 3: 6 Action
Line 4: 8 Feeling or Effect
Line 5: 2 Synonym of the initial noun.