Five-liner

A five-line liner (also quintain or quintet ) is in verse a stanza or poem form consisting of five verses . Limerick is a special form . The rhyme schemes are aaabb, aabab, aabba, abbaa, ababa, abaab, aabbb, ababb, abbab, abbba.

Examples

Rhyme scheme ababb:

Others may need new life in Heaven--

Man, Nature, Art - made new, assume!

Man with new mind old senses to leaven,

Nature - new light to clear old gloom,

Art that breaks bounds, gets soaring room.

(Robert Browning, Speculative)

Rhyme scheme abbaa:

Allons, mon pauvre coeur, allons, mon vieux complice,

Redresse et peins à neuf tous tes arcs triomphaux;

Brûle un encens ranci sur tes autels d'or faux;

Sème de fleurs les bords béants du precipice;

Allons, mon pauvre coeur, allons, mon vieux complice!

(Paul Verlaine, Nevermore)

Rhyme scheme abaab:

Who is it who loves me so much that he?

violates his dear life?

If someone drowns in the sea for me

so I am from the stone to return

into life, redeemed into life.

(Rainer Maria Rilke, The Song of the Statue)

Rhyming scheme aabba (Limerick): aabba:

There was a Young Lady of Clare,

Who was sadly pursued by a bear;

When she found she was tired,

She abruptly expired,

That unfortunate Lady of Clare.

(Edward Lear, There was a Young Lady of Clare)

Rhyme scheme ababa:

I know there shall dawn a day

—Is it here on homely earth?

Is it yonder, worlds away,

Where the strange and new have birth,

That power comes full in play?

(Robert Browning, Reverie)

literature

• TVF Brogan, M. Martin: Quintain. In: Roland Greene, Stephen Cushman et al. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. 4th edition. Princeton University Press, Princeton 2012, ISBN 978-0-691-13334-8 , p. 1142 ( limited previewhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3DuKiC6IeFR2UC~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3DPA1142~doppelseiten%3D~LT%3Deingeschr%C3%A4nkte%20Vorschau~PUR%3D in Google Book Search).
• Horst Joachim Frank : Handbook of the German strophic forms. 2nd Edition. Francke, Tübingen & Basel 1993, ISBN 3-7720-2221-9 , pp. 369-405.
• Otto Knörrich: Lexicon of lyrical forms (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 479). 2nd, revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-520-47902-8 , p. 177.
• Fritz Schlawe: The German stanza forms. Systematic-chronological register of German poetry 1600–1950. Repertories on the history of German literature, Vol. 5. Metzler, Stuttgart 1972, ISBN 3-476-00243-8 , pp. 401-409.
• Gero von Wilpert : Subject dictionary of literature. 8th edition Kröner, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-520-84601-3 , p. 656.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wiktor Jarosław Darasz, Mały przewodnik po wierszu polskim, Kraków of 2003.