Mirror Cinquain

• The Mirror Cinquain is:
• decastich (10 line poem)
• syllabic, 2-4-6-8-2  2-8-6-4-2 syllables per line.
• unrhymed.
• titled.

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This is a mixture of the standard Cinquain and a Reverse Cinquain. Basically a standard followed by a reversed.

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So, using the usual syllable counting convention, a mirror cinquain = 2,4,6,8,2 blank line 2,8,6,4,2 syllables. This pattern repeats for longer mirror sequences.
Related forms: Baxter's Hexastitch, Butterfly Cinquain, Cinquino, Crapsey Cinquain, CinqCinquain, Cinquain Chain, Cinquain Swirl,  Didactic Cinquain, Mirror Cinquain, Oddquain Butterfly, Standard Cinquain 

Example Poem

Soulful Husbandry    (Mirror Cinquain)

Two wolves

lives in each of

us to make us what we

are, though we train them how to serve

our goals.

They both

compete to make us what we are.

So train them well and choose

the wolf that you

will feed.

© Lawrencealot - February 20, 2014