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A limerick is a short, humorous, often ribald or nonsense poem, especially one in five-line anapestic or amphibrachic meter with a strict rhyme scheme, which is sometimes obscene with humorous intent.
The standard form of a limerick is a stanza of five lines, with the first, second and fifth rhyming with one another and having three feet of three syllables each; and the shorter third and fourth lines also rhyming with each other, but having only two feet of three syllables.
A flea and a fly in a flue
Were caught, so what could they do?
Said the fly, "Let us flee."
"Let us fly," said the flea.
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
Haiku (no separate plural form) is a very short form of Japanese poetry typically characterised by three qualities:
•The essence of haiku is "cutting" (kiru). This is often represented by the juxtaposition of two images or ideas and a kireji ("cutting word") between them, a kind of verbal punctuation mark which signals the moment of separation and colours the manner in which the juxtaposed elements are related.
•Traditional haiku consist of 17, in three phrases of 5, 7 and 5 on respectively. Any one of the three phrases may end with the kireji. Although haiku are often stated to have 17 syllables, this is inaccurate as syllables and on are not the same.
In Japanese, haiku are traditionally printed in a single vertical line while haiku in English often appear in three lines to parallel the three phrases of Japanese haiku.
Haiku usually consist of 17 syllables total, in three phrases of five, seven and five on respectively.
Line 1: 5 syllables.
Line 2: 7 syllables.
An old silent pond...
A frog jumps into the pond,
splash! Silence again.
Line 3: 5 syllables.
A Haiku in English is a short poem which uses imagistic language to convey the essence of an experience of nature or the season intuitively linked to the human condition. It is a development of the Japanese haiku poetic form in the English language.
English haiku do not adhere to the strict syllable count found in Japanese haiku, and the typical length of haiku appearing in the main English-language journals is 10–14 syllables.
Some haiku poets are concerned with their poems being expressed in one breath.
Cinquain is a class of poetic forms that employ a 5-line pattern. Earlier used to describe any five-line form, it now refers to one of several forms that are defined by specific rules and guidelines.
American Cinquain:
The American poet Adelaide Crapsey(1878–1914) invented the modern form, known as American Cinquain, and was inspired by Japanese haiku and tanka. It has two syllables in its first and last lines and four, six, and eight in the intervening three lines and generally has an iambic cadence.
Line 1: one word (subject or noun)
Line 3: three words (action verbs) that relate to line 1
Line 4: four words (feelings or a complete sentence) that relates to line 1
Line 5: four words (feelings or a complete sentence) that relates to line 1
Line 2: two words (adjectives) that describe line 1
Knights
Armour ,shields
Fighting, charging, slaughtering
Worried, delighted, brave, fearsome