Cinquain And Clerihew

Cinquain

Easy lift

Now is a gift

Thank you for being swift

We do better without a rift

No shift

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Clarihew

Denise Claire Estey Lindquist

is never to be kissed

by her hubby John

when he is chewing snuff or out on the lawn.

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The American cinquain is an unrhymed, five-line poetic form defined by the number of syllables in each line — the first line has two syllables, the second has four, the third six, the fourth eight, and the fifth two (2–4–6–8–2). Bing

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The first line in a clarihew is the name of the poem’s subject, usually a famous person, and the remainder puts the subject in an absurd light or reveals something unknown or spurious about the subject.

The rhyme scheme is AABB, and the rhymes are often forced. The line length and meter are irregular.

Clerihews are not satirical or abusive, but they target famous individuals and reposition them in an absurd, anachronistic or commonplace setting. Bing

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First published by Mercury Press on medium.com