Pentazain

A pentazain is a newly-defined variation of the traditional form of the sonnet.

More accurately described as a "reconstituted sonnet," the form consists of five quatrains in common metre – alternating lines of eight and six syllables – for a total of 140 syllables arranged into twenty lines rather than fourteen.

Examples

 * "A Ballad of the Two Knights," by Sara Teasdale
 * "For the Poor," by William Cowper
 * "Unwitting Heir," by Anthony J Fuchs
 * "The Rose of Midnight," by Vachel Lindsay