Rictameter is a scheme similar to Cinquain. Starting your first line with a two syllable word, you then consecutively increase the number of syllables per line by two. i.e. 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 Then down again, 8, 6, 4, 2 Making the final line the same two syllable word you began with.

Example #1:

Beauty
Solemn beauty
Decorates you with kiss
Freed just once of its bridled tongue
Confessing shame at its unworthiness
To e'er have loved or touched your grace
To e'er have looked upon
That face which is
Beauty

Copyright © 2000 Jason Wilkins

Example #2:

Satin
As your lips are
Pressed to mine as velvet
Soft and full with rounded sweetness
Two gentle petals alive with the night
Misted in the summer beauty
Of rains that shower love
'Pon your lips of
Satin

Copyright © 2000 Jason Wilkins


Example #3:
Childhood
Is valued high
Above the treasures bright
Shining like the brilliant sun light
Fulfilling dreams I never knew I had
All magnified in my child’s laugh
All brightened by his smile
Increased by love
Childhood

Copyright © 2004 Mrs. Aubrey Steedman