CRAPSEY, Adelaide
Manuscript of “Snow,” undated

A year after Crapsey's death Claude Bragdon published her book of poetry Verse at his Manas Press. Crapsey (1878-1914), who grew up in Rochester, is credited with inventing the cinquain—a five-line unrhymed iambic stanza containing, in order, 2, 4, 6, 8, and 2 syllables per line. Shown is an example of a cinquain written in Crapsey's hand.

From the Adelaide Crapsey Papers