Quinzaine

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Quinzaine is an unrhymed verse of fifteen syllables. The word comes from the French word qunize, meaning fifteen. The syllables are distributed over 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.