How To Use quatrain In A Sentence
- Paul Griffin describes A Christmas Carol in a clerihew that has as its first quatrain: ‘GIRL WITH EVERYTHING ASKS FOR MOOR’ — Witty Summaries of ‘Othello’ and Other Classics, Edited by E. O. Parrott « One-Minute Book Reviews
- Cook's first collection presents a series of experiments with formal structures; standard sonnets, quatrains, and the more recently standard haiku and ghazal as well.
- Also of note formally are a few poems with blippy little quatrains of one to two words per line, one of which is the frolicsome ‘Leopard Spirit Society’.
- Rubaiyat are independent quatrains, most often written with the first, second and fourth lines rhyming.
- Jaques's assertion of the presence of the object world as a link to the past and a means to achieve wholeness in the present is echoed in her conventional poetics, dominated by her preference for rhyming couplets and quatrains.
- Smith's ‘illegitimate’ sonnet consists of three elegiac quatrains and a couplet, thus combining both English elegiac meters.
- If you read aloud the lines containing this word at the beginnings of the first two quatrains, you will hear something between resigned bitterness and sad determination conveyed by the spondaic stress on the first “must,” and a firmer, mounting determination in the second “must.” Annie Finch reads Claude McKay
- The second quatrain labours in its diction as it emulates the sun's climbing of the heavens; the scansion of line 5, 'And having climbed the steep-up heavenly hill' requires additional accents inserted into the iambic pattern ( 'steep-up heavenly) to achieve its effect. Shakespeare
- I curled up with Nash's couplets, quatrains, limericks and occasional jeremiads.
- The reply and counter-reply must be given in the form of a quatrain with a rhyme scheme of a-b-c-b.