quatrains in English

noun
1
a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes.
The play is written in verse which varies between alternately rhyming quatrains and stanzaic form, the effect being lyric rather than dramatic.

Use "quatrains" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "quatrains" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "quatrains", or refer to the context using the word "quatrains" in the English Dictionary.

1. This marks the beginnings of English sonnet with 3 quatrains and a closing Couplet.

2. Alcaics stanzaic form is: • stanzaic, any number of quatrains may be written

3. ‘Actaeon’ is a five stanza poem that is separated into groupings of four lines, called quatrains.

4. 16 Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet.

5. Traditionally, üligers are delivered orally in alliterative verses, often taking the form of couplets or quatrains.

6. ‘ Apotropaic’ is a four stanza poem that is made up of strophes of four lines, called quatrains

7. The quatrains follow the progress of a child from his fortuitous birth to his first conscious communication with others.

8. This much-quoted 16th century physician and prognosticator with his cryptic quatrains has been the most respected seer in history.

9. Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet.

10. Ballads are a type of narrative verse, with some consisting of quatrains and others consisting of couplets. Ballads have a few different elements

11. 22 As my thoughts on that subject began to be marshalled and spoken, I may have been formally influenced by Gray's pentameter quatrains.

12. 19 The Shakespearean sonnet consists of three quatrains (four-line stanzas), rhyming abab cdcd efef, and a couplet (a two-line stanza), rhyming gg.

13. 13 The Shakespearean sonnet consists of three quatrains (four-line stanzas), rhyming abab cdcd efef, and a couplet (a two-line stanza), rhyming gg.

14. “Bogland,” a short poem of seven four-line stanzas (quatrains), is the final work in Seamus Heaney’s second collection of poetry, Door into the Dark

15. The typical “ballad meter” was an alternation between lines in iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter.Ballads were generally written in quatrains with a regular rhyme scheme of ABCB

16. About “Amoretti: Sonnet 1” In this first poem of the sequence the poet addresses his poems themselves: the three quatrains speak with increasing focus of “leaves,” then “lines,” then

17. ‘His poetic emblem books in particular, written in Alexandrine verse and with a moralizing tone, brought him international renown.’ ‘His earlier work tends to be written in traditional rhymed quatrains but, as he matured, he dropped the rhymes and worked in a freer but still basically Alexandrine movement.’

18. 33 (composed 1956, unpublished) Gavotte in E minor for harpsichord, without Opus (composed 1956, unpublished) Morceau for oboe and piano, without Opus (composed 1958, unpublished) Arietta (Andante quasi adagio) in E minor for harpsichord, without Opus (composed 1958, unpublished) Quatrains d'Omar Khayyam for soprano, bariton and string quartet op.