ADELAIDE CRAPSEY

1878 - 1914

CINQUAINS

These four poems provide examples of cinquains.

AMAZE

I know
Not these my hands
And yet I think there was
A woman like me once had hands
Like these.

THE WARNING

Just now,
Out of the strange
Still dusk...as strange, as still...
A white moth flew. Why am I grown
So cold?

MOON SHADOWS

Still as
On windless nights
The moon-cast shadows are,
So still will be my heart when I
Am dead.

NIAGARA

Seen on a Night in November

How frail

To Cinquain in the Glossary
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Above the bulk
Of crashing water hangs,
Autumnal, evanescent, wan,
The moon.

This poem provides an example of a triolet.

I make my shroud but no one knows,
So shimmering fine it is and fair,
With stitches set in even rows.
I make my shroud but no one knows.

To Triolet in the Glossary
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In door-way where the lilac blows,
Humming a little wandering air,
I make my shroud and no one knows,
So shimmering fine it is and fair.