The Butterfly Cinquain isn't a cinquain at
all:it is a nonostich (9 lines)and uses the syllable count of the Crapsey
Cinquain and then reverses it, therefore the misnomer.
The
Butterfly Cinquain is:
○ 9 line
poem.
○
syllabic, 2-4-6-8-2-8-6-4-2 syllables per line.
unrhymed.
Thanks to Judi Van Gorder for the above.
Related forms: Baxter's Hexastitch, Butterfly Cinquain, Cinquino, Crapsey Cinquain, CinqCinquain, Cinquain Chain, Cinquain Swirl, Didactic Cinquain, Mirror Cinquain, Oddquain Butterfly, Standard Cinquain
My Sample poem
Plastic Trees (Butterfly Cinquain)
Don't like
fake plastic trees.
When one sets out to
trick
the senses of
someone they like
they ought
to learn to fake
sincerity;
The real thing is
the best
the plastic should
be real.
© Lawrencealot
- November 16, 2014
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