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AMERICAN CINQUAINS Adelaide's answer to the Japanese haiku Poems in shapely form, displaying syllables or stresses in a versatile refrain.
A.DIDACTIC DISCUSSION
TITLE completely optional
FORMAT
FIRST LETTER OF LlNE CAPITALISED
line syllables/stresses
1. 2 Long days
2. 4 Of August sun
3. 6 Where nature blinks and shrinks
4. 8 The dying grass,yellowed in sleep-
5. 2 Held fast
An EXAMPLE OF MINE -TITLED
EXPLANATION
PASSION
Eyes closed
As lips caressed,
Mouths joined,impassioned
Tongues explore,in our love's embrace,
Time-framed
KEY to this form- note how line 1 & line 5 make a link couplet & secondly
the 'turn' 'surprise' from end of line 4 to 5.
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