Cinquain is a short, usually unrhymed poem consisting of twenty-two syllables distributed as 2, 4, 6, 8, 2, in five
lines. It was developed by the Imagist poet, Adelaide Crapsey.
Another form, sometimes used by school teachers to teach grammar, is as follows:
Line 1: Noun Line
2: Description of Noun Line 3: Action Line 4: Feeling or Effect Line 5: Synonym of the initial noun.
