The QUINTET form of poetry is any five line verse form. There is no set rhyme scheme or syllable count in the quintet. The format of the poem is up to the poet.


Example by Walt Baker:

excerpt from Clouds Over The National Veterans Cemetery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Like stone infantry in defilade, they range up and down a green hill
Plain white granite markers facing front in good close order drill
Name, rank, dates they stayed here - yet nothing on that ashlar face
About who loved them and whose crying countenance lost all grace
When Western Union called

But in the empyrean sky, making dapple shadows across the scene
Towering white clouds on their way to Heaven show forms serene
Like those who lie below, each cloud is seen but once – goodbye!
Common denominator of quick and dead, clouds change but never die
Even if skies be palled