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A five-line poetic form. The American cinquain, devised by the poet Adelaide Crapsey and published posthumously in her 1915 collection Verse, is a fixed accentual-syllabic pattern of one, two, three, four and one stresses across two, four, six, eight and two syllables per line. Crapsey developed the form under the influence of Japanese haiku and tanka, and it is often described as sharing the compressed, image-centered spirit of the contemporary Imagist movement.
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Place of OriginThe American cinquain, the fixed form this entity registers, was devised by Adelaide Crapsey; the name cinquain is also used more loosely elsewhere for any five-line stanza. StructureFive lines of accentual-syllabic verse with 1, 2, 3, 4 and 1 stresses across 2, 4, 6, 8 and 2 syllables per line. 1 Notable ExampleAdelaide Crapsey, Verse (1915, published posthumously) 2 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Imagism, Movements Wikipedia describes the American cinquain as "akin in spirit" to Imagism, not as an Imagist-affiliated form.
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1. Cinquain (Wikipedia)
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a stanza of five lines of accentual-syllabic verse, in which the lines comprise, in order, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 1 stresses and 2, 4, 6, 8, and 2 syllables
1. Cinquain (Wikipedia)
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Her interest in rhythm and meter led her to create a unique variation on the cinquain (or quintain), a 5-line form of 22 syllables influenced by the Japanese haiku and tanka.
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