a correct compassion

[cis]

All right, let's talk poetry: one of my tutors the other day mentioned Adelaide Crapsey, a woman cursed with an unfortunate name but an amazing gift for metre, who invented the 'cinquain', a syllabic english metre supposed to be a little bit analogous to the tanka. She's one of those stately morbid American poets, early twentieth century, north

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[koganbot]

A friend of mine writes cinquains!

[cis]

Your friend is cool! They are a fantastic metre. I'm a little suspicious of 'american tanka'/'english-language haiku' because the tendency is toward free-verse epigrams, which are yes very interesting but a different thing to metred verse with rules. To adopt a metre and work within it seems so much more interesting!

[nidedawn]

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