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Quintain (poetry) A quintain or pentastich is any poetic form containing five lines. Examples include the tanka, the cinquain, the quintilla, Shakespeare's Sonnet 99, and the limerick.
a nine-line syllabic form with the pattern two, four, six, eight, two, eight, six, four, two. a sequence of five cinquain stanzas functioning to construct one larger poem. 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.
Her five-line cinquain (now styled as an American cinquain) [30] has a generally iambic meter defined as "one-stress, two-stress, three-stress, four-stress and suddenly back to one-stress" [31] and normally consists of 2 syllables in the first and last lines and 4, 6 and 8 syllables in the middle three lines, as shown in the poem Niagara. [32]
Eugene McCown. Eugene McCown (also known as Eugene Mac Cown) [1] (July 27, 1898 – April 23, 1966) [2] was an American pianist, painter of the École de Paris, and writer. He was mainly notable for his participation in the chic bohemian set of Paris in the Roaring Twenties.
Josephine Baker, iconic figure of the Années folles. The Années folles (French pronunciation: [ane fɔl], "crazy years" in French) was the decade of the 1920s in France. It was coined to describe the social, artistic, and cultural collaborations of the period. [1] The same period is also referred to as the Roaring Twenties or the Jazz Age in ...
Lanterne (poem) A lanterne is a cinquain form of poetry, in which the first line has one syllable and each subsequent line increases in length by one syllable, except for the final line that concludes the poem with one syllable. Its name derives from the lantern shape that appears when the poem is aligned to the center of the page. Each line of ...
Roaring Twenties. The Roaring Twenties, sometimes stylized as Roaring '20s, refers to the 1920s decade in music and fashion, as it happened in Western society and Western culture. It was a period of economic prosperity with a distinctive cultural edge in the United States and Europe, particularly in major cities such as Berlin, [1] Buenos Aires ...
Limerick (poetry) A limerick (/ ˈlɪmərɪk / LIM-ər-ik) [1] is a form of verse that appeared in England in the early years of the 18th century. [2] In combination with a refrain, it forms a limerick song, a traditional humorous drinking song often with obscene verses. It is written in five-line, predominantly anapestic and amphibrach [3 ...