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.
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!
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Brilliant! Absolutely perfect with structure and intent!👌🏻
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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.
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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.
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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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