Saturday Mix – Lucky Dip, 10 February 2018
Welcome to the Saturday Mix, 10 February 2018!
This week I have reached into my mystery bag and pulled out a Cinquain. It’s my husband’s birthday in two days, so your challenge today, is to write a Cinquain poem with the theme of “Birthday”.
You may be thinking to yourself, What on earth is a Cinquain?
Luckily, Forward Poetry has an explanation…
A Cinquain poem is a verse of five lines that do not rhyme. The Cinquain poem was created by Adelaide Crapsey.
What is the structure of a Cinquain?
A cinquain consists of 5 unrhymed lines.
Each line has a set number of syllables and words. See below:
Line 1 – one word, 2 syllables (noun)
Line 2 – two words, 4 syllables (adjectives)
Line 3 – three words, 6 syllables (verbs ending in -ing)
Line 4 – four words, 8 syllables (express feeling or describe noun)
Line 5 – one word, 2 syllables (synonym for noun in line 1)
An example of a Cinquain Poem (by me!)
Panic.
Deviant mind
flagging, wobbling, drowning.
Stoicism propels me to
withstand.By Sarah © 2017
Source: Forward Poetry Editors, https://www.forwardpoetry.co.uk/cinquain.php (accessed on 10 February, 2018)
Good luck with your ‘Lucky Dip Cinquain’ – I can’t wait to see what you come up with! Don’t forget to tag ‘Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie’, ‘Saturday Mix’, and hashtag #LuckyDip.
As always, make sure you link your fabulous creation to the helpful Mister Linky.
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Reblogged this on By Sarah and commented:
A birthday Cinquain for this week’s Lucky Dip…
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here is my attempt :
Birthday!
happy wishes
singing, partying, having
friends family rejoice together,
celebrate!
Brilliant! Absolutely perfect with structure and intent!👌🏻
thanks for the feedback because I wasn’t sure … don’t think it will be my style 🙂
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Sarah – did you know your example poem is also an Elfje?
Five line 11 word poem; first line one word, etc up to the forth line four words… fifth line one word.
See https://simplyelfje.wordpress.com/about/ 🙂
I think your definition is the most detailed I’ve seen. 🙂
Aren’t there also different Cinquains?
I found this simple definition:
Prosody.
a short poem consisting of five, usually unrhymed lines containing, respectively, two, four, six, eight, and two syllables.
any stanza of five lines.
Hi Jules. I didn’t twig that it was also an elfje! I found a number of definitions for a cinquain whilst researching for the post. Thought the complex one added an extra layer to the challenge 😊 but you’re quite right. It is also defined as five line stanzas that follow the 2,4,6,8,2 syllable pattern.
Elfje just follows word, not syllable.
And you used 11 words, in the Elfje patter 😉
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That’s pattern… Line 1 one word, 2 two words, 3 three words, 4 four words, line 5 one word 🙂
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