Assignment #3 - Cinquain Revision

Beloved Distraction

Desire
Constant longing
Delusory dreaming
Wantonly wasting precious time
Yearning

Cinquain Structure:

Cinquain is a short, usually unrhymed poem consisting of twenty-two syllables distributed as 2, 4, 6, 8, 2, in five lines. It was developed by the Imagist poet, Adelaide Crapsey. One way to approach this form is as follows:

Line 1: Noun (2)
Line 2: Description of Noun (4)
Line 3: Action (6)
Line 4: Feeling or Effect of the action (8)
Line 5: Synonym of the initial noun. (See definition of "synonym" in the terminology list.) (2)

Twenty soothing words:


Love
dream
dawn
beloved
passion
happiness
vibrant
ecstatic
surreal
beauty
empty
strong
echoes
memories
heart
friend
reverie
gentle
roses
joyful