Quintain (poetry)

Examples include the tanka, the cinquain, the quintilla, Shakespeare's Sonnet 99, and the limerick.

The purple pride Which on thy soft cheek for complexion dwells, In my love’s veins thou hast too grossly dyed.

And how the swift beat of the brain Falters because it is in vain, In Autumn at the fall of the leaf Knowest thou not?

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti[2] Half of my youth I watched the soldiers And saw mechanic clerk and cook Subsumed beneath a uniform.

Ballets with symmetry of the flower Outlined the aspect of a soul Whose pure precision was of death.