Cloud Hands: Quintain Poetry: The Eight Syllable Quintain Stanza

Monday, February 02, 2026

8 Syllables Fixed Quintain Poem

Examples: # 2155, 2178, 2184, 2194, 2218, 2490

Song of Hiawatha, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Emotionally drained down,

bothered by worries and woes,

at the edge of loosing control;

got it back together, somehow---

curled in a ball and so dozed

- Mike Garofalo, # 2490

"Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less,

Withdraws into its happiness;

The mind, that ocean where each kind

Does straight its own resemblance find;

Yet it creates, transcending these..."

- Andrew Marvel, The Garden #2155

"And walk among long dappled grass,

And pluck till time and times are done,

The silver apples of the moon,

The golden apples of the sun."

- William Butler Yeats, The Song of Wandering Aengus

Gradually Improvising

My fickle Self perched on the line

Fiddling with my destiny

Creating new identities---

Enjoying new realities

- Mike Garofalo, #2194

Each of the five lines in a 8 Syllables Fixed

Quintain Poem must be only 8syllables long.