A COUPLE OF QUINZAINES
The cliff face was menacing.
Was she all alone?
Was she pushed?
In brick and mortar townscapes
Is wild life sustained?
Do birds sing?
A quinzaine is an unrhymed verse of fifteen syllables. These syllables are distributed among three lines so that there are seven syllables in the first line, five in the second line and three in the third line (7/5/3). The first line makes a statement. The next two lines ask a question relating to that statement.