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Cinquain Rules
What is a Cinquain?
- A short, 5-line poem that follows the 2-4-6-8-2 syllable scheme
- pronouced: sin-kayn
Rules
- A cinquain must be exactly 5 lines
- The lines must follow the 2-4-6-8-2 syllable scheme
- The 1st & 5th lines have 2 syllables
- The 2nd line has 4 syllables
- The 3rd line has 6 syllables
- The 4th line has 8 syllables
- A cinquain does not have to rhyme.
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Poetry >> Cinquain Rules Examples
Examples
My Cinquain, My Rules
Rules, Rules.
That's all you hear
no matter where you go.
It's my life, I'll find my own path.
My Rules!
School Cinquain
School rules
I go to school
To learn and to have fun
Some teachers are great, others ain't
School rules