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Encyclopedia: Quintain

Quintain (O. Fr. quintaine, from Lat. quintana, a street between the fifth and sixth maniples of a camp, where warlike exercises took place), was an instrument used in the age of chivalry in practising for the tournament.

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Quintaine

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Stanza

In poetry, a stanza is a unit within a larger poem. The term means "room" in Italian. A stanza may have a self-contained rhyme scheme or be made up a fixed number of lines (see distich/couplet, tercet, quatrain, cinquain/quintain, sestet) or, as in much modern poetry, may be an arbitrary unit...

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Cinquain

In poetry, a cinquain or quintain is a five line stanza, varied in rhyme and line, usually of the with the rhyme scheme ababb. An example of cinquain is the following stanza from Percy Bysshe Shelley's "To a Skylark": Teach me half the gladness -A- That thy brain must know, -B- Such harmonious...

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