Here are many examples of poets who have written longer poems using quintains:
Examples of longer poems
using the 5 line stanzas extensively or
exclusively :
Ted Berrigan, Words for Love
Christina Bok, Kalokagathia
Elizabeth Bishop:
Cirque d'Hiver
In a Room
North Haven
Sleeping on the Cieling
The Unbeliver
Billy Collins:
Animal Behavior
Sandhill Cranes of Nebraska
(detail)
Randy Crawford:
I Don't Wanna Be Normal #2310
Robert Creely, Self-Portrait
James Dickey: The Heaven of Animals
Emily Dickinson:
571, 1217, 1221, 1223, 1228
Robert Frost:
Bond and Free
In a Vale
Mike Garofalo:
Devil's Lake in Lincoln City
Arbitrary Associations Impending #2536
Crash, Smashed!
One Picture of Me #2620
Louise Glück, Threshing
Paul Goodman:
The Weepers Towers in Amsterdam
Noah Eli Gordon, The Book of Forgetting
Robert Hayden:
Mystery Boy looks for kin in Nashville
Josephine Jacobsen:
How We Learn
Language as an Escape from the Discrete
Monosyllables
Gallway Kinnell:
Alewives Pool
To Christ Our Lord
Robert Lowell, Fall 1961
Thomas McGrath, A Letter for Marian
Marianne Moore:
A Carriage from Sweeden
The Plumet Basilisk
In the Days of Prismatic Color
Howard Nemerov
Elegy of Last Resort #2544
The Scales of the Eyes
Chales Olson:
Gulf of Maine
Some Good News
Octavio Paz:
Ladera Este, East Slope
A Day in Udaipur
Arthur Rimbaud:
The Savior Bumped Upon His Heavy Butt
Squatting
Theodore Roethke:
Loves Progress
All the Earth, All the Air
It was the beginning winter
Highway: Michigan
The Tranced
The Dying Man
Winfield Townkey Scott:
Five for the Grace of Man
William Stafford:
A Bridge Begins in the Trees
An Introduction to Some Poems
Fifteen
Lake Chelan
A Memoria: Son Bret
Mother's Day
My Life
Our Kind
Serving with Gideon
A Star in the Hills
Sky
Story Time
Things That Happen
A Walk in the Country
The Way I Write
Derek Walcott, Forest of Europe
Theodore Weiss, A Dab of Color
Mark Van Doren, Family Pride
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