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

In “America,” he added, “I had this wonderful quatrain that went: ‘I like to be in America/OK by me in America/Everything free in America/For a small fee in America.’

From New York Times • Nov. 26, 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

In “Company,” she uncannily channels what could be a lost quatrain from W.H.

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2016

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

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut