A quintet, also called a quintain, is a stanza or short poem made up of five lines. The term describes the structure, not a specific rhyme scheme or meter, so a quintet can be written in many different ways.
Writers use quintets for brief, compact poems or as building blocks within longer poems.
Example
The rain tapped softly on the rail,
A silver thread in morning air;
The garden lifted leaf and stem,
And every puddle held a prayer,
Until the sun dissolved the veil.
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Related Definitions
[n] a musical composition for five performers
[n] five people considered as a unit
[n] a set of five similar things considered as a unit
[n] five performers or singers who perform together
[n] the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one
Synonyms
5, cinque, fin, five, fivesome, fivesome, Little Phoebe, pentad, Phoebe, quint, quintette, quintette, quintuplet, V