Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A group of four lines; a period, system, stanza, or poem consisting of four lines or four verses; a quartet. Compare
quatrain .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A stanza, epigram, or poem, consisting of four verses or lines.
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- noun prosody A
four -linestanza .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The tetrastich alludes to the beauty of the Greek slaves.
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What I have said in the foregoing tetrastich is thus translated out of the Lanternish tongue into our vulgar dialect:
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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What I have said in the foregoing tetrastich is thus translated out of the Lanternish tongue into our vulgar dialect:
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Robert Recorde's _Castle of Knowledge_ (1556) occurs the following tetrastich: --
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There was something congenial to the Roman spirit in the pithy distich or tetrastich which formed so considerable an element in the "elegant extracts" of Alexandria.
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879
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[FN#292] This tetrastich has occurred before (Night cxciii.).
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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[FN#315] This tetrastich has occurred before: so I quote Mr. Payne
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Here Selvaggi praised him in a distich, and Salsilli in a tetrastich: neither of them of much value.
Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley Samuel Johnson 1746
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What I have said in the foregoing tetrastich is thus translated out of the Lanternish tongue into our vulgar dialect:
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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292 This tetrastich has occurred before (Night cxciii.).
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