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Ranger 5 Feb 2003 Reply
How about putting Cinquain as a style? It's a five line poem, syllable structure 2 (1st line), 4 (2nd), 6 (3rd), 8 (4th), 2 (5th). The last two syllables should both be stressed and nouns and verbs should feature more promiently than adjectives and adverbs. But I'm sure you didn't need me to tell you that.

Also, is there something wrong with the system at kaolin's end? Nobody at college can get to poemranker, and that's the only place that I can get on regularly? Or is it just that the college system's crap?

Cheers

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Nicholas Jones 6 Feb 2003 Reply
From which poetic tradition does this come from - is it a French thing? Can you give us an example?
Ranger › Nicholas Jones 15 Feb 2003 Reply
I'm not sure where it comes from-I'll do a bit of research into it some time.
Here's one I wrote earlier:

Telephone

The phone
It cannot speak
Adult conversation
And time spent waiting for response
Pick up

Or how's this?

Rooftop

The Roof
Gently sloping
Protecting all beneath
And out of twisted humour it
Falls down
nentwined 6 May 2004 Reply
cinquain added.
Shuushin › nentwined 6 May 2004 Reply
cool
zodiac › nentwined 6 May 2004 Reply
Great, another way to post poems too short to say anything.
nentwined › zodiac 6 May 2004 Reply
perhaps.