Adelaide Crapsey

Adelaide Crapsey (9 September 1878 – 8 October 1914) was an American poet. In the years before her death, she wrote much of the verse on which her reputation rests. Her interest in rhythm and meter led her to create a variation on the cinquain (or quintain), a five-line form of twenty-two syllables influenced by the Japanese haiku and tanka. Her cinquain has a generally iambic meter and consists of two syllables in the first and last lines and four, six and eight syllables in the middle three li

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"My object to venture the suggestion that an important application of phonetics to metrical problems lies in the study of phonetic word-structure."

- Adelaide Crapsey

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"The old Old winds that blew When chaos was, what do They tell the clattered trees that I Should weep?"

- Adelaide Crapsey

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"These be Three silent things: The falling snow...the hour Before the dawn...the mouth of one Just dead."

- Adelaide Crapsey

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"Listen. With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees And fall."

- Adelaide Crapsey

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"I know Not these my hands And yet I think there was A woman like me once had hands Like these."

- Adelaide Crapsey

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