quatrain

Example Sentences

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Seshadri is fluent in an unusually wide range of forms — he ranges here from rhymed quatrains to fat blocks of prose — and his voice is typically chatty, probing, importuning, self-mocking.

From New York Times

Cohen favors an Audenesque quatrain with none of the puckish genius Auden used to refashion the form.

From New York Times

Knights battled, jugglers juggled and sang, visitors sampled mead or rhyming quatrains.

From New York Times

Reminds me of a Dorothy Parker quatrain, which as I recall goes something like this: I love to drink martinis, One or two at most.

From New York Times

A fixed form of nineteen lines: five tercets, a concluding quatrain, and a rhyme scheme tight enough to keep any feeling from spilling over the borders.

From The New Yorker