November Night
work by Crapsey
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"November Night" is a poem by Adelaide Crapsey, an American poet known for creating the cinquain. The cinquain is a five-line stanza with a specific syllable count: two syllables in the first and last lines, and four, six, and eight syllables in the middle three lines, often with an iambic cadence. "November Night" exemplifies this form, with its concise and delicate expression capturing a moment of autumn. The poem's structure is analogous to Japanese verse forms like haiku and tanka.12
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