cinquain
| 20th-century verse form consisting of 22 syllables arranged in five lines in the sequence 2, 4, 6, 8, 2 (the accent scheme being 1, 2, 3, 4, 1). Inspired by the Japanese tanka, the cinquain was invented by the US poet Adelaide Crapsey (1878–1914), whose works, both in form and intention, anticipated Imagism. |
| A well-known example by Crapsey is the poem called Triad: |
| These be Three silent things: The falling snow…the hour Before the dawn…the mouth of one Just dead. |
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