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Definition of Cinquains
1. cinquain [n] - See also: cinquain
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cinquains
Literary usage of Cinquains
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern American Poetry by Louis Untermeyer (1921)
"She was particularly happy in her " cinquains," a form that she originated. ...
THREE cinquains NOVEMBER NIGHT Listen . . . With faint dry sound, ..."
2. Modern American Poetry by Louis Untermeyer (1921)
"She was particularly happy in her " cinquains," a form that she originated. ...
THREE cinquains NOVEMBER NIGHT Listen . . . With faint dry sound, ..."
3. The New Poetry: An Anthology by Alice Corbin Henderson (1917)
"Adelaide Crapsey cinquains Listen. NOVEMBER NIGHT With faint dry sound, Like
steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees And ..."
4. The Poetic Year for 1916: A Critical Anthology by William Stanley Braithwaite (1917)
"The most effective utterance of the poet is in a form invented by Miss Crapsey
which she called ' cinquains.' They are like marvellously chiselled gems. ..."
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