Explore the Craft of Writing Light Verse The Didactic Cinquain or Recipe Poem is often taught to American school children used as an aid in exploring the poetic mind, or just having fun with words. It uses parts of speech for the set form and in this regard is similar to the Diamante or Diamond Poem. This verse form is not to be confused with Rhyming Recipe or Recipe Poem which sets a culinary recipe to rhyme.
The elements of the Didactic Cinquain or Recipe Poem are:
a cinquain with lines made up of
L1 1 noun,
L2 2 adjectives,
L3 3 verbs,
L4 1 phrase or sentence,
L5