quatrain

Example Sentences

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The five-character quatrain, which rose to prominence during the Tang dynasty, has four lines consisting of five characters each.

From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2023

One visitor from the United States, Rupert Flowers, told the state-run Anadolu Agency that he traveled to Konya, inspired by Rumi’s best-known and welcoming quatrain:

From Seattle Times • Dec. 21, 2021

This week: Write a quatrain or — heck — two of Balliol rhyme about some person.

From Washington Post • Feb. 20, 2020

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 • Feb. 26, 2017

Which is why the epigraph of this book is the quatrain from the famous Christmas carol.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut