Cinquain: Churning Waves
Title: Churning Waves
bombards the shore.
Splash after splash
of all conquering seawater.
Churning
What is a Cinquain?
A cinquain is a five-line poem that was invented by Adelaide Crapsey. She was an American poet who took her inspiration from Japanese haiku and tanka.
There are several form of cinquain, this particular ones are of the traditional form.
Sometimes iambic feet were used in these traditional cinquains, but is not really a requirement of the structure.
But like the traditional haiku it has strict syllable requirement.
Syllables Per Line
- Line one had two syllables.
- Line two had four syllables.
- Line three had six syllables.
- Line four had eight syllables.
- Line five had two syllables.



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