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Irony!
Said a
very old sage
not foes but friends betray
your men conspire to pull you down
what grief!
I ask
if all men think
it’s true, and loathe deceits
then who’s betrayed and who betrays?
Funny!
What is cinquain?
The cinquain, also known as a quintain or quintet, is a poem or stanza composed of five lines.
Generally, the cinquains have a fixed rhyming scheme (such as abaab or abccb) or a fixed syllable pattern (such as 2-4-6-8-2), depending on the variation of cinquains.
What are different variations of cinquains?
There are several forms of cinquains that are defined by specific rules and guidelines. Some of them are:
| Type | Description |
| American Cinquain | American cinquain is insppired by Japanese Haiku and tanka. These poems generally have a syllable pattern. They consist of iambic feet with 1, 2, 3, 4, and 1 stresses in each of the successive lines, making it 2, 4, 6, 8, and 2 syllable lines. |
| Didactic Cinquain | This is a type of cinquain that has specific rules for the number of words (and not syllables and stresses). Ordinarily, the first line is a one-word title, the subject of the poem; the second line is a pair of adjectives describing that title; the third line is a three-word phrase that gives more information about the subject (often a list of three verbs); the fourth line consists of four words describing feelings related to that subject, and the fifth line is a single word synonym or other references for the subject from line one. |
| Reverse cinquain | A reverse cinquain is a form with one 5-line stanza in a syllabic pattern of two, eight, six, four, two. |
| Mirror cinquain | A mirror cinquain is a form with two 5-line stanzas consisting of a cinquain followed by a reverse cinquain. |
| Butterfly cinquain | Butterfly cinquain is a nine-line syllabic form with the pattern two, four, six, eight, two, eight, six, four, two. |
| Crown cinquain | A crown cinquain is a sequence of five cinquain stanzas functioning to construct one larger poem. |
| Garland cinquain | Garland cinquain is a series of six cinquains in which the last is formed of lines from the preceding five, typically line one from stanza one, line two from stanza two, and so on. |
About The Poem, ‘Irony!’
- This is a poem about a thought that people beleive that other people (mostly the ones they are close to) will betray and deceit them. And the irony is that almost all the men beleive this.
- In this poem there are two 5-line cinquain stanzas.
- There are 2, 4, 6, 8, and 2 syllables in each successive line.
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