Notes About The Poem

Adelaide Crapsey prioritised her American Cinquain imagist form as follows;

1.Image/Thought ...... the inspiration behind the poem

2.Five line form

3.Stress sequence 1,2,3,4,1

4.Syllable sequence 2,4,6,8,2

5.Symmetry ............. Initial line capitals and English grammar throughout

definitve article https://web.archive.org/web/20151118100940/http://www.dengary.com/essays/introductiontoamericancinquain.html

 

as shown here *in her November Night

 

* https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Una0VG0Qkdo

ADELAIDE CRAPSEY cinqainiste

My tribute to this favourite poet:

A well travelled lass named Adelaide
Innovative and never staid,
Unmarried,single but no old maid-
A short life,latterly full of pain,
Her epitaph,the American cinquain.*
For the lovely Adelaide Crapsey
a long life was not to be.
In syllable,two,four,six eight&two
her cinquain made imagism anew

*definitive article link as above
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