siŋˈkān, ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun
( -s )
Etymology: French, from cinq + -ain (as in quatrain )
: a five-line stanza ; specifically : the five-line verse form that is analogous to the Japanese tanka and that has two syllables in its first and last lines, four, six, and eight in the intervening three lines, and generally iambic cadence