- A
quatrain is a type of stanza, or a
complete poem,
consisting of four lines.
Existing in a
variety of forms, the
quatrain appears in
poems from the poetic...
-
Decasyllabic quatrain is a
poetic form in
which each
stanza consists of four
lines of ten
syllables each,
usually with a
rhyme scheme of AABB or ABAB....
- gave to his 1859
translation from
Persian to
English of a
selection of
quatrains (rubāʿiyāt)
attributed to Omar
Khayyam (1048–1131),
dubbed "the Astronomer-Poet...
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poetry (or its
derivative in
English and
other languages) in the form of a
quatrain,
consisting of four
lines (four hemistichs). In
classical Persian poetry...
- careful, controlled, laborious…it
defines and
redefines its
subject in each
quatrain, and this
subject becomes increasingly vulnerable. It
starts out as motionless...
-
tradition of
attributing poetry to Omar Khayyam,
written in the form of
quatrains (rubāʿiyāt رباعیات). This
poetry became widely known to the English-reading...
- "Fee-fi-fo-fum" is the
first line of a
historical quatrain (or
sometimes couplet)
famous for its use in the
classic English fairy tale "Jack and the Beanstalk"...
- his book Les Prophéties (published in 1555), a
collection of 942
poetic quatrains allegedly predicting ****ure events. Nostradamus's father's
family had...
- The
Seven Steps Verse, also
known as the
Quatrain of
Seven Steps (traditional Chinese: 七步詩;
simplified Chinese: 七步诗; pinyin: Qī Bù Shī;
Cantonese Jyutping:...
- [ˈʃa.i.ɾi]), also
known as
Rustavelian quatrain, is the name of a
particular poetic form, or a
monorhymed quatrain. It was used by the
Georgian poet Shota...
