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- noun Plural form of
quatrain .
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Examples
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When the damsel heard this elegy in quatrains she cried out
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The poems are composed in short quatrains of a slowly moving rhythm restrained by frequent pauses and occasional metrical irregularities, and thus they reflect with faithfulness the paternal agony with which they are filled.
Life Immovable First Part Kostes Palamas 1901
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He wrote in ambiguous, nearly inscrutable sets of phrases called quatrains that believers claim predicted everything from the American Civil War to Hitler to John F. Kennedy's assassination.
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For example, sonnets are printed with or without indention according to the individual preference of the poet; also other rhymed forms, such as quatrains rhyming alternately; as well as various forms of free verse.
Introduction Harriet Monroe 1917
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This decision was given in a short poem of four quatrains which is preserved in the preface to the "Martyrology" of
An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 Mary Frances Cusack 1864
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This is a rhyming poem in six quatrains, very loosely based on the kyrielle form.
Crowdfunded poem plan shweta_narayan 2010
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The structure is as tight as a sonnet: three quatrains and a two-line payoff.
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Much I remembered, possibly two-thirds of the quatrains, and I managed to piece out the remainder without difficulty.
Chapter 11 2010
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The quatrains are more playfully, less thematically, divided.
Coleman Barks: Rumi's Poetry: 'All Religions, All This Singing, One Song' Coleman Barks 2010
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The quatrains are more playfully, less thematically, divided.
Coleman Barks: Rumi's Poetry: 'All Religions, All This Singing, One Song' Coleman Barks 2010
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