Quatrain

Word QUATRAIN
Character 8
Hyphenation quat rain
Pronunciations /ˈkwɒt.ɹeɪn/

Definitions and meanings of "Quatrain"

What do we mean by quatrain?

A stanza or poem of four lines. noun

A stanza of four lines riming alternately. noun

A stanza of four lines rhyming alternately. noun

A poem in four lines noun

A stanza of four lines noun

A stanza of four lines noun

A poem in four lines.

A stanza of four lines.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Quatrain

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The word "quatrain" in example sentences

It starts promisingly enough, with the gypsy Maleva's famous quatrain from the original: "Even a man who is pure in heart/And says his prayers by night/May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms/And the autumn moon is bright." ❋ Unknown (2010)

The meaning of that quatrain is clearer than the first lines of the poem: “The bottoms of autumn/Wear diamonds of frost.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

This quatrain is fresh and memorable partly because inverts the traditional image: The wise men who once brought gifts to the Christ Child are themselves “borne as gifts.” ❋ Unknown (2007)

I was inclined to follow the more familiar term quatrain straight ahead until I caught the "sextrain" but no such luck. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Some anthologies – not many – include the early sonnet to his brothers, whose hushed first quatrain is a paragon of detail-work and scene-setting: ❋ Unknown (2007)

The word quatrain comes from Latin and it means four. ❋ Chirayu (2005)

If we are to have a mere arbitrary arrangement of the sonnet, why not the same in a poem of regular or inverted quatrains, or of the Persian quatrain, which is now always given in this form: -- ❋ Various (1904)

In the third stanza, I consider the middle quatrain, that is, the four lines beginning “Out of this world,” perfectly grand. ❋ MacDonald, George, 1824-1905 (1868)

Ionic a minore is itself, I need not say, the metre of a single Ode in the Third Book, the "Miserarum est," and I have devised a stanza for it, taking much more pains with the apportionment of the ictus than in the case of the trochaic quatrain, which is better able to modulate itself. ❋ 65 BC-8 BC Horace (1847)

To be certain the quatrain was his, Nostradamus wants to induce his memory, and asks your help in preparing a medicine. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The poem is characterized by having two refrains, initially used in the first and third lines of the first stanza, and then alternately used at the close of each subsequent stanza until the final quatrain, which is concluded by the two refrains. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"quatrain" done in violet hues by some poetic wielder of an indelible pencil. ❋ George Barr McCutcheon (1897)

Paul Griffin describes A Christmas Carol in a clerihew that has as its first quatrain: ❋ Unknown (2009)

My father, who died a decade ago, adored Edward Fitzgerald's translation of the Rubaiyat -- this quatrain in particular: ❋ Unknown (2009)

And I find myself continually reminded of Richard Le Gallienne's inimitable quatrain: ❋ Unknown (2010)

I looked up from my rudimentary parchment note pad to judge the effect of my quatrain on Gunnlaug and Hallfred. ❋ Con Chapman (2011)

I recited with a certain joyous lilt which was my own, for — his memory was good, and at a second rendering, very often the first, he made a quatrain his own — he recited the same lines and invested them with an unrest and passionate revolt that was well-nigh convincing. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Or perhaps the last Rubaiyat (quatrain) of the great Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer, Omar Khayyam, (1048-1131) would be appropriate: ❋ Unknown (2010)

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