The cinquain is a five-line twenty-two syllable verse form created by Adelaide Crapsey in response to the tanka and haiku forms which were then coming into vogue among English-language poets. Because it is a western form, the cinquain is more expansive and rhetorical. It lends itself to a variety of uses. A Book of Cinquains contains poems that are descriptive, humorous, meditative and dramati
| Author: Andrew Mangravite |
| Publisher: Xlibris |
| Publication Date: Nov 03, 2005 |
| Number of Pages: 168 pages |
| Binding: Hardback or Cased Book |
| ISBN-10: 1599262479 |
| ISBN-13: 9781599262475 |