Upside down mothering  

A cinquain: five lines for five newborn kittens    Mother’s Day 2024

 

Feline

Matron upside

Downside… woes…parenting

Small mewling kittens…small problems,

Soon…big!

 

 

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  • First line: The first line of an American cinquain has two syllables and one stressed syllable.
  • Second line: The second line of an American cinquain has four syllables and two stresses.
  • Third line: The third line of an American cinquain has six syllables and three stresses.
  • Fourth line: The fourth line of an American cinquain has eight syllables and four stresses.
  • Fifth line: The last line of an American cinquain has two syllables and one stress.

 

The most famous examples of cinquain poetry come from the American poet Adelaide Crapsey. Twenty-eight cinquains appeared in her posthumous 1915 anthology Verse.

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Robert