Five Lines In One Garland Poem by Aniruddha Pathak

Five lines
In one garland
Tied in together stand
And the whole thing as if one shines,
Cinquain!
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Cinquain, despite its apparent French connection, is an American poem-form of recent origin. It has five lines forming a single stanza of 22 syllables. The number of syllables in each line:
- 2 in the first line, and 4 in the second,
- 6 in the third line, and 8 in the fourth, and
- 2 again in the fifth line.
The first four lines are iambs, and the fifth one a spondee (with two stressed syllables) . It builds up a climax progressively, the fifth line being some sort of conclusion with a surprise.
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Cinquains | 24.11.08 |