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Cinquain

A cinquain poem has five lines.
The word comes from the French cinq, which means five.
The best-known form of cinquain poetry was created in the early 1900s by
a poet named Adelaide Crapsey. These cinquains are similar to haiku in
that the rules for writing them are based on syllables.

2 - 4 - 6 - 8 - 2