Butterfly Cinquain

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.

  Pasted fromhttp://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/index.php?showtopic=1001

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