Quatrains

When the damsel heard this elegy in quatrains she cried out ❋ Unknown (2006)

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. ❋ Kostes Palamas (1901)

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. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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. ❋ Harriet Monroe (1917)

This decision was given in a short poem of four quatrains which is preserved in the preface to the "Martyrology" of ❋ Mary Frances Cusack (1864)

This is a rhyming poem in six quatrains, very loosely based on the kyrielle form. ❋ Shweta_narayan (2010)

The structure is as tight as a sonnet: three quatrains and a two-line payoff. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Much I remembered, possibly two-thirds of the quatrains, and I managed to piece out the remainder without difficulty. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Most poems are odes or odes-in-spirit that marvel at the qualities of a creature in couplet quatrains or another traditional form. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A sublime poet, his literary output is as long as it is impressive and includes: Jaap Sahib, invoking the many attributive names of the Divine; Sawaiyyas (quatrains); Akal Ustat (Lauding the Timeless); Chandi Ki Var, a ballad depicting the eternal contest between good and evil; and Zafarnama (Epistle of Victory), a defiant letter to the Mughal Emperor. ❋ Ravinder Singh Taneja (2012)

The quatrains are more playfully, less thematically, divided. ❋ Coleman Barks (2010)

Since 1959 speculation on this long and narrow island has been fueled by Tarot cards, Ouija boards, rhyming quatrains, fortunetellers, babalaos and prophets. ❋ Yoani Sanchez (2011)

This is the Southern Song Dynasty monk Seng Zhinan the “quatrains.” ❋ Unknown (2010)

This is a description of spring outing of the quatrains. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But of course I do after Dan pens me four apologetic quatrains. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Self-dramatizing teenage girls and American-lit majors think they know everything that needs to be known about Emily Dickinson, the reclusive 19th-century poet who wrote taut, powerful, sometimes wry quatrains about the nature of nature, love, death and immortality. ❋ Unknown (2010)

While written in English poetry's favourite traditional structure, quatrains, "Jasmine" begins impressionistically, almost synaesthetically, with an odour that merges into cinematic images. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I think Nostrodomus mentioned this script in one of his later quatrains. ❋ Unknown (2008)