Thursday, April 8, 2010

Cinquain

Fact File:
Cinquain

A cinquain has five lines that describe a thing.

the item you are describing (usually a word, but could be two, like "Golden Retriever"
2 words-can be phrase
3 words-can be phrase
4 words- can be phrase
1 word
Example:
Basketball
By: Suchi
Basketball
Slam Dunk
Golden State Warriors
Time Out, Foul, Layups
Sport

3 comments:

nara said...

Didn't quite get it. Golden State Warriors is name, how could it be a phrase?

NSA said...

You moved from Haiku's?

Pushpa said...

this is new to me :) thanks for introducing different forms of poetry so neatly- i loved it :)

-manni