Thursday, May 14, 2009

What Is a Cinquain? What Is a Couplet?

Dad and Sister Seele,

You wanted to know what cinquains and couplets are. I will tell you.

A couplet is basicly two lines that rhyme and have the same rythm. For example:
If your first line has 5 sylables and the last word is tree, then your second line has to have 5 sylables with the last word rhyming with the word tree.

A cinquain is a poem that always has 5 lines. These are the 5 lines:
Line 1--Title (one noun)
Line 2--Description about the title (two adjectives)
Line 3--An action about the title (three verbs)
Line 4--A feeling about the title (a four-word phrase)
Line 5--Another word for the title (one-word synonym)

A CINQUAIN DOES NOT HAVE TO RHYME!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thank you Ellie

Love, DAD