This week, we’re looking at a fifth type of cinquain—the Butterfly Cinquain. Again, it uses either a Crapsey Form 1 or a Crapsey Form 2 as a base. For those of you who are new to this series, Adelaide Crapsey was an American poet who was inspired by the rules of Japanese poetry to create her own poetical form, the cinquain. A cinquain is a five-line poem that has a set number of syllables (or word types) per line. Sometimes the title of a cinquain acts as a sixth line. The fifth type of cinquain we’ll look at is called a Butterfly Cinquain. The Butterfly Cinquain is a nine-line verse with two syllables in the first line, four in the second, six in the third, eight in the fourth, two in the fifth, eight in the sixth, six in the seventh, four in the eighth and two in the ninth line . If you look at this verse’s shape on the page, you will see why it’s called a butterfly cinquain. Here’s an example, inspired by the evil nature of trolls: Troll man Beneath th...
