Cinqain

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Cinquain poems are a type of poetry consisting of five lines.

There are four ways to write cinquain poems, based on words or syllables, and within that the types of words used.

Types of Words:

Line 1: One noun (title)

Line 2: 2 adjectives describing title

Line 3: 3 words ending in -ing

Line 4: one phrase

Line 5: one noun that is a synonym to the title

Words:

Line 1: one word (title)

Line 2: two words

Line 3: three words

Line 4: four words

Line 5: one word

Types of syllables:

Line 1: two noun syllables (title)

Line 2: four adjective syllables

Line 3: 6 verb syllables

Line 4: 8 syllables

Line 5: 2 synonym syllables

Writing a poem based on syllables alone uses the same order and amount of syllables as above but whether or not the word is a noun/verb/adjective/synonym does not matter.