the American Cinquain

<p>In the early 1900s Adelaide Crapsey invented a five-line short form of poetry now known as the American Cinquain based partially on her study of Cherokee incantations.</p><p>Most readers of short forms are familiar with Japanese Haiku and Tonka but few are familiar with Adelaide's home-grown American Cinquain.</p><p></p><p>DEFINITION</p><p>Cinquain:</p><p>story told in</p><p>twenty-two syllables</p><p>five lines of 2-4-6-8-2.</p><p>That's it.</p><p></p>