quatrain
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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
Clive James’s deft translation, published in 2013, restructures the work’s original terza rima into quatrains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
That, more than the quatrains of Omar Khayyam or the gorgeous rugs of Kerman, is the soft power that matters to Tehran.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 19, 2022
The poem bears in its four unsturdy quatrains the kind of uncertainty that might face a man who knows whom he wants to marry, but not what marriage may entail: “I am afraid,” he writes.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 3, 2019
Miraculously, Dawn arrived at this family gathering with valentines for each of us: heavy stock cards on which she’d painted pastel animals and written sweet quatrains.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 12, 2019
“Quite so, and the ‘The Wreck of the Hesperus’ is written in quatrains as well, four lines to a stanza.”
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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Reading: Literature - Poetry - Middle School
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