Definition of Quatrains. Meaning of Quatrains. Synonyms of Quatrains

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Definition of Quatrains

Quatrain
Quatrain Quat"rain, n. [F., fr. quatre four, L. quattuor, quatuor. See Four.] (Pros.) A stanza of four lines rhyming alternately. --Dryden.

Meaning of Quatrains from wikipedia

- during the four seasons, into which the quatrains are individually ****igned. Shairi (also known as Rustavelian Quatrain) is an AAAA rhyming form used mainly...
- verses), the last fifty-eight quatrains of the seventh "Century" have not survived in any extant edition. The quatrains, published in a book titled Les...
- Written in a Country Churchyard". Shakespearean Sonnets, comprising 3 quatrains of iambic pentameter followed by a final couplet, as well as later poems...
- verdict was that 14 quatrains could be attributed to Khayyam with certainty. Various tests have been emplo**** to reduce the quatrains attributable to Omar...
- poems, quatrains, united in ten sets of verses ("Centuries") of 100 quatrains each. The first edition included three whole Centuries and 53 quatrains. The...
- of disentangling authentic from spurious quatrains: "while it is certain that Khayyam wrote many quatrains, it is hardly possible, save in a few exceptional...
- collection". Daily Times. Archived from the original on 18 January 2014. Retrieved 11 April 2014. Tajik girls reciting ruba'i quatrains Poetry portal...
- Buddhist temples, consisting of one hundred prophetic five-character quatrains, is traditionally attributed to the Heian period Tendai monk Ryōgen (912–985)...
- and the second and third lines rhyme). Enclosed-rhyme quatrains are used in introverted quatrains, as in the first two stanzas of Petrarchan sonnets. (From...
- "The first and the third [quatrains], it is true, define love negatively: 'love is not...'; Love's not...'. The two quatrains are further tied together...