cinquain
/sɪŋˈkeɪn/
noun
- A short poem consisting of five lines, often with a specific syllable or word count pattern.
- Her cinquain captured the feeling of a quiet snowfall in just five lines.
- For the poetry assignment, we had to create a cinquain following the 2-4-6-8-2 syllable pattern.
- The students wrote a cinquain about autumn using exactly 22 syllables.
- A group or set of five things, especially five lines of verse.
- He challenged himself to write one cinquain every day for a month.
- The poet's collection included several cinquains on the theme of nature.
- Each cinquain in the anthology told a tiny story about a different animal.