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Cinquains

Cinquain Rubric

Overview

A cinquain ("cin-kain") is a five-line form poem.  A "cinquain" (from cinq the French word for five) usually follows this organization:

Line 1: a one-word line, a noun that gives the poem its title.
Line 2: two adjectives that that describes what the poem is about.
Line 3: three action -ing verbs that things the subject of the poem does.
Line 4: a 4-word phrase that indicates a feeling related to the subject of the poem
Line 5: a one-word line, noun, that sums up what the poem is about, essentially renaming the subject.

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