Cinquain (Quintain)
The cinquain is a five-line stanzaic form that varies in rhyme and line length. It is usually written in the ababb rhyme scheme. The form became more specialized in the hands of American poet Adelaide Crapsey. With a nod to the Japanese poetry styles, she wrote cinquains as short, unrhymed five-line poems as two, four, six, eight, and two syllables per line, respectively.
