Antonyms for quatrain
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : kwo-treyn |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈkwɒ treɪn |
Definition of quatrain
Origin :- 1580s, from Middle French quatrain "four-line stanza" (16c.), from Old French quatre "four," from Latin quattuor "four" (see four).
- As in poem : noun highly expressive, rhythmical literary piece
- As in poesy : noun poem
- To be sure, he had originally composed this quatrain for Ophelia; but what would you have?
- Extract from : « A Midnight Fantasy » by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- In a quatrain the lines which do not rhyme must end on the opposite tone to that of the rhyme.
- Extract from : « A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems » by Various
- The Mull in return wrote and presented a quatrain to me inFol.
- Extract from : « The Bbur-nma in English » by Babur, Emperor of Hindustan
- The first quatrain of this poem is inscribed on the Battle Monument at Concord.
- Extract from : « Poems of American History » by Various
- The sense may be complete in the couplet, but must be complete in the quatrain.
- Extract from : « The Revival of Irish Literature » by Charles Gavan Duffy
- But times have changed and like everything else the quatrain has grown respectable.
- Extract from : « Rhymes and Meters » by Horatio Winslow
- Suppose every writer of a quatrain in America should send his whole product to us.
- Extract from : « The Inventions of the Idiot » by John Kendrick Bangs
- The Bodleian quatrain pleads Pantheism by way of Justification.
- Extract from : « The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam » by Omar Khayyam
- This quatrain is translated from two ruba'iyat in the Ouseley MS., 13 and 80.
- Extract from : « The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam » by Omar Khayyam
- This quatrain (eliminating the reference to David) is translated from O. 67.
- Extract from : « The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam » by Omar Khayyam
Synonyms for quatrain
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