How do you use Quatrain in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like stanza, plus the exact meaning.
Quatrain meaning
- A poem in four lines.
- A stanza of four lines.
Synonyms of Quatrain
Using Quatrain
- The main meaning on this page is: A poem in four lines. | A stanza of four lines.
- Useful related words include: stanza.
- In the example corpus, quatrain often appears in combinations such as: quatrain is, of quatrain, quatrain on.
Context around Quatrain
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 6 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 11 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Quatrain
- In this selection, "quatrain" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, rhyming, line, thematic, describes, composed and uses stand out and add context to how "quatrain" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a quatrain describes the and a rhyming quatrain is chosen. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "quatrain" sits close to words such as aami, abada and abbottabad, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with quatrain
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A rhyming quatrain is chosen by the picker. (8 words)
This type of quatrain uses a seven characters length of line. (11 words)
A quatrain describes the three as wealthy, "springs of craftiness" and "sources of bitter fighting". (15 words)
Quatrain 84 (equivalent of FitzGerald's quatrain XI in his 1st edition, as above): In the sweet spring a grassy bank I sought And thither wine and a fair Houri brought; And, though the people called me graceless dog, Gave not to Paradise another thought! (45 words)
Without receiving his payment in due time, Spenser gave the Queen this quatrain on one of her progresses: I was promis'd on a time, To have a reason for my rhyme: From that time unto this season, I receiv'd nor rhyme nor reason. (45 words)
Usually, only the second and fourth line of a quatrain are rhymed (in the scheme a, b, c, b), which has been taken to suggest that, originally, ballads consisted of couplets (two lines) of rhymed verse, each of 14 syllables. (40 words)
Quatrain 84 (equivalent of FitzGerald's quatrain XI in his 1st edition, as above): In the sweet spring a grassy bank I sought And thither wine and a fair Houri brought; And, though the people called me graceless dog, Gave not to Paradise another thought! (45 words)
Example sentences (12)
Quatrain 84 (equivalent of FitzGerald's quatrain XI in his 1st edition, as above): In the sweet spring a grassy bank I sought And thither wine and a fair Houri brought; And, though the people called me graceless dog, Gave not to Paradise another thought!
A quatrain describes the three as wealthy, "springs of craftiness" and "sources of bitter fighting".
A rhyming quatrain is chosen by the picker.
Each quatrain is accompanied with Persian text, a glossary of terms, Yoganada's spiritual interpretation, and practical interpretation.
Fitch et al. 2012 Form The villanelle consists of five stanzas of three lines ( tercets ) followed by a single stanza of four lines (a quatrain ) for a total of nineteen lines.
For the other variations of shi poetry, generally either a four line (quatrain, or jueju ) or else an eight line poem is normal; either way with the even numbered lines rhyming.
Poe places a Latin epigraph before the story, describing it as "a quatrain composed for the gates of a market to be erected upon the site of the Jacobin Club House at Paris ".
Their edition provides two versions of the thematic quatrain, the first (98) considered by the Persian writer Sadeq Hedayat to be a spurious attribution.
This type of quatrain uses a seven characters length of line.
Usually, only the second and fourth line of a quatrain are rhymed (in the scheme a, b, c, b), which has been taken to suggest that, originally, ballads consisted of couplets (two lines) of rhymed verse, each of 14 syllables.
Visual arts History of visual arts Quatrain on Heavenly Mountain by Emperor Gaozong (1107–1187) of Song Dynasty ; fan mounted as album leaf on silk, four columns in cursive script.
Without receiving his payment in due time, Spenser gave the Queen this quatrain on one of her progresses: I was promis'd on a time, To have a reason for my rhyme: From that time unto this season, I receiv'd nor rhyme nor reason.
Common combinations with quatrain
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- quatrain is 2×
- of quatrain 2×
- quatrain on 2×