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Synonyms for quatrain

Grammar : Noun
Spell : kwo-treyn
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkwɒ treɪn

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Définition 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
Example sentences :
  • 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

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