cinquain

Iambic feet were meant to be the standard for the cinquain, which made the dual criteria match perfectly.

A typical example of a rondeau cinquain of the 15th century is the following:

In her usual seat, among 20-odd other children at desks with attached seats, Meredith applies herself to the cinquain puzzle.

Crapsey's cinquain depends on strict structure and intense physical imagery to communicate a mood or feeling.

The Crapsey cinquain has subsequently seen a number of variations by modern poets, including:

The prescriptions of this type of cinquain refer to word count, not syllables and stresses.

The didactic cinquain is closely related to the Crapsey cinquain.

By the 1930s, the five-line cinquain verse form became widely known in the poetry of the Scottish poet William Soutar.

If derived from the erstwhile 21-line rondeau cinquain, the result is a 15-line form with the rentrements in lines 9 and 15 (rhyme scheme aabba-aabR-aabbaR).

One form of verse which he used was the cinquain (now known as American cinquain), these he labelled epigrams.

The Chief Justice wrote at least two opinions partially in verse (a cinquain) and is rumored to have called for the use of powdered wigs for the Justices.

Her five-line cinquain,(now styled as an American cinquain )has a generally iambic meter defined as 'one-stress.

Poet Carl Sandburg was partly responsible for the continued interest in the cinquain and in keeping Crapsey from obscurity through his poem "Adelaide Crapsey".

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.

It is an informal cinquain widely taught in elementary schools and has been featured in, and popularized by, children's media resources, including Junie B. Jones and PBS Kids.

Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1914), an American, invented a five-line verse form, derived in part from Asian models as she understood them; she called it the cinquain, and it is still practiced now and then.

Genres produced include the following: acrostic, butterfly, cinquain, diamante, ekphrastic, fib or Fibonacci poetry, gnomic poetry, haiku, Kural, limerick, mirror cinquain, nonet, octosyllable, pi, quinzaine, Rondelet, sonnet, tanka, unitoum, waka, simple verse, and xenia epigram.