NaPoWriMo Day 5 A cinquain

For NaPoWriMo Day 5
They suggest a cinquain. The rules are below.

petals

angelic, white

peering, poking, prodding

 lacey, silky, milky, nodding
bract

springing
hopeful, healing
hailing, raining, snowing
sighing, anxious, cold front flying
shoot

Framework for Cinquain

Line 1 - one word for the topic - noun
Line 2 - 2 words to describes your topic -adjective
(from Latin: ad - 'toward', + jacere - 'throw')
Line 3 - 3 words that describes the actions relating to your topic -adverb
(place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree)
Line 4 - 4 words that describes the feelings relating to your topic - affect
Line 5 - one word that is another noun for your topic - synonym

Syllables

Line 1 - two syllables
Line 2 - four syllables
Line 3 - six syllables
Line 4 - eight syllables
Line 5 - two syllables
I used this poetic strategy to teach my gr. 8 writers about grammatical terms. It works well! The Handbook of Poetic Forms suggests:

• Refrain from being cloyingly sweet
• build toward a climax
• put a surprise into your last two lines
• be concerned with thoughts and images rather than parts of speech.