Quintains are five-line image poems.

Cinqku, lanterne, tetractys, and quintiles are examples of variations of the Cinquain type of five-line image form. Other quintain forms can be in the style of English quintets, individual French cinquains, individual Quintillas, five line blank or free verse. The Tetractys, also known as the decad, is a triangular figure consisting of ten points arranged in four rows: one, two, three, and four points in each row. ... In poetry, a cinquain or quintain is a five line stanza, varied in rhyme and line, usually with the rhyme scheme ababb. ... Blank verse is a type of poetry, distinguished by having a regular meter, but no rhyme. ... Free verse (also at times referred to as vers libre) is a term describing various styles of poetry that are not written using strict meter or rhyme, but that still are recognizable as poetry by virtue of complex patterns of one sort or another that readers can perceive to be...

Adelaide Crapsey and William Soutar are perhaps the most well-known poets of the American cinquain image form. Cinqku is a fixed-form five line tanka or cinquain image poem with no title, 17 syllables, with a surprise or turn in line 4 or 5. This concise form was created by Denis Garrison, an American poet. Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1914) was an American poet. ... Scottish poet, born 1898. ... See Waka (disambiguation) for other usages. ...

Lanterne is a five line quintain verse shaped like a Japanese lantern with a syllabic pattern of one, two, three, four, one.Each line usually able to stand on its own as a phrase,and the poem may or may not have a title which sometimes forms an integral part as a 'sixth line'.

A tetractys is five-line poem of 20 syllables with a title ,arranged in the following order: 1,2,3,4,10.with each line standing as a phrase on its own. This form was created by the late English poet Ray Stebbings.

Quintiles are multiple American cinquains, centered on a common theme, that are linked to form a longer poem. The tanka in its modern English form is the basis of each of the quintain image forms.

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• Cinqku
• Tetractys
• other quintains
• Quintiles
• modern English tanka