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Cinquains

A style of form and shape poetry

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Ash Raymond James
Nov 08, 2020
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Instead of cramming this into the daily newsletter, I thought I'd send this out separately. Easy and fun form poetry you were promised, so easy and fun form poetry you got, now let's tear that apart and make it complicated AF!

On the surface, cinquains are five lines in length (a quintet) and follow the syllable count of 2-4-6-8-2. Classically, it was a…

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