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.

Cinquain Quintain Quintet

The cinquain, also known as a quintain or quintet, is a poem or stanza composed of five lines. Cinquains can be found in many European languages; originating from medieval French poetry. (Often, my students would align the poems by centering them. They look interesting.)

The most common cinquains in English follow a rhyme scheme of ababb, abaab or abccb. For some 16th and 17th-century poets check out: Sir Philip Sidney, George Herbert, Edmund Waller, and John Donne (1572 - 1631). It helps to read, or listen to, the best!

Framework
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

I used this poetic strategy to teach my gr. 8 writers about grammatical terms. It works well!

Syllables

Line 1 - two syllables
Line 2 - four syllables
Line 3 - six syllables
Line 4 - eight syllables
Line 5 - two syllables

Read as many poems as you can. It helps set the tone.

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.