Types Of Poetry:

The CINQUAIN is a five-line, 22-syllable poem with emphasis on the amount of syllables in each stanza. Usually unrhymed, the cinquain is attributed to American poet Adelaide Crapsey who created the form based on the Japanese haiku. The syllabic line breaks are as such:

2, 4, 6, 8, 2

The Following Text Is Quoted:

Schematic:
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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.

OR

Line 1 is one word (the title)
Line 2 is two words that describe the title.
Line 3 is three words that tell the action
Line 4 is four words that express the feeling
Line 5 is one word that recalls the title
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Example by Adelaide Crapsey:

excerpt from November Night

LISTEN . . .
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees
And fall.