Monday, March 13, 2023

Counting syllables and writing a cinquain

 How many syllables are there in the following words?

- fear

- comfortable

- butterfly

- our

- bizarre

- electrician

- beautiful

- dangerous

If you aren't sure, you can always use this page:

How Many Syllables

Now that we have practised counting syllables, we are going to write a cinquain poem.

A cinquain poem is a type of poem classified by the number of syllables each line in the poem has. It was created by an American poet, Adelaide Crapsey, in the early twentieth century.

The poem typically consists of five lines, using the following structure:

Line 1: 2 syllables.
Line 2: 4 syllables.
Line 3: 6 syllables.
Line 4: 8 syllables.
Line 5: 2 syllables.

And something I forgot: cinquains don't rhyme.



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