In western classical literature, the rhythm of five-element poems is generally ababb, such as robert browning's "Lover of Porphyria":
Muttering that she loves me, she
She is too weak, and despite her best efforts,
Release the passion of its struggle
From the relationship between pride and vanity,
Give yourself to me forever.
The American poet Adelaide Crapsey (English: Adelaide Crapsey) (1878–1914) was inspired by Japanese poems such as haiku, and wrote a simple blank five-line poem, each with 2-4-6-8-2 syllables and one. This is called the traditional five-line poem, which was later popularized by the works of other American poets such as Carl Sandberg. For example, Crapsey's five-line poem "Trichord":
these are
Three silent things:
Snowflakes falling ... on the hour
Before dawn ... a man's mouth
Just dead.
A judge who doubts your fate
Weaken.
Later, someone developed a simpler five-line poem style, called modern five-line poem: