FizzyLizzy

You may remember my distaste for the poetic form "cinquain". Probably not. Well, I had another unfortunate encounter with the cinquain yesterday. I accompanied Katherine's class to the Walker Art Center for a Writing and Art field trip. Not only was our tour guide quite disappointing, they had to write...you guessed it...cinquains about the half-dozen works we viewed. The worksheet the museum gave the kids contained the particularly restrictive rules for the subform known as the didactic cinquain. If you want to torture them, why not just have them write sonnets in iambic pentameter?