Unfamiliar Genre: Cinquain

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Unfamiliar Genre: Cinquain
Cinquain is a French word with a root of “cinq” which means “five” – the amount of lines in a Cinquain poem. A Cinquain is a five-line poem. However, it is an American poetry form. Its founder, Adelaide Crapsey, was influenced by Japanese haiku poetry, and developed this poetic for to communicate brief thoughts and statements (Kenn, 2011).
The words you choose and the form they take on paper are an important part of the writing. Some people say they appear like diamonds on paper (Kenn, 2011).
Here’s an example of a Cinquain poem
Spaghetti
Messy, spicy
Slurping, sliding, falling
Between my plate and mouth
Delicious
(Barden)
The reason I chose cinquains is that, whereas they are just five lines long, with only a few words on each line, making them easy to write for many, for me, this has proved to be hard, and I have eventually never tried writing any, …show more content…

However, it is generally required that the poem is centered. This, to me, means that, where it is not centered on the page, then it ceases to be a cinquain.
Cinquain has the following four basic rules that must be observed when one needs to write it the traditional way; first, he or she needs to keep in mind the general format that, Cinquains are five lines long; secondly, that cinquains have 2 syllables in the first line, 4 in the second, 6 in the third, 8 in the fourth line, and only 2 in the last line; and, lastly, that, cinquains do not necessary need to have rhyme scheme, but one can include rhymes if he or she wants to.
Cinquian seems to employee three strategies that make it successful. The first, strategy is on how to “get started”. At this stage, the writer or poet has to select a topic. The poet needs to choose something to write about, especially on an idea: for instance, his favorite thing; what he hates; or what even what happen to

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