quatrain

Example Sentences

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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

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

He loves to violate the fourth rhyme in a quatrain, then rhyme the next couplet with the offending word.

From Washington Post • Mar. 9, 2016

After finishing the opening quatrain, he declaimed the names of the victims of the Charleston shooting, the band replying each time with a relieved organ flourish.

From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2015

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

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut