Quatrains is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Quatrains meaning
plural of quatrain
Using Quatrains
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of quatrain
- In the example corpus, quatrains often appears in combinations such as: the quatrains, of quatrains, quatrains and.
Context around Quatrains
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 10 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 16 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Quatrains
- In this selection, "quatrains" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, rhyming, rhymed, two, believed, attributed and although stand out and add context to how "quatrains" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include categories the quatrains rubayāt and and collection of quatrains and may. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "quatrains" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with quatrains
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Most AI poetry is a series of insipid clichés arranged in rhyming quatrains. (13 words)
Most of the poems are single couplets or quatrains, although some are longer. (13 words)
Some quatrains cover these disasters in overall terms; others concern a single person or small group of people. (18 words)
Beginning with the earlier recorded forms: the Classic of Poetry tends toward couplets of four-character lines, grouped in rhymed quatrains; and, the Chuci follows this to some extent, but moves toward variations in line length. (36 words)
Major works An Ottoman era manuscript depicting Rumi and Shams-e Tabrizi Rumi's poetry is often divided into various categories: the quatrains ( rubayāt ) and odes ( ghazal ) of the Divan, the six books of the Masnavi. (36 words)
In the Petrarchan sonnet, the turn tends to fall around the division between the first two quatrains and the sestet, while English sonnets usually place it at or near the beginning of the closing couplet. (35 words)
Example sentences (16)
Most AI poetry is a series of insipid clichés arranged in rhyming quatrains.
Now, a section of netizens believes that Nostradamus, in one of his quatrains had warned about the collapse of the Mullaperiyar dam in Kerala.
A few literary researchers, for example, Mohammad-Ali Foroughi and Farzaneh Aghaeipour citation have selected and published a subset of the quatrains believed to be original using various research methods.
Authenticity and analysis The number of quatrains attributed to Khayyam varies from about 1,200 (according to Saeed Nafisi ) to over 2,000.
Beginning with the earlier recorded forms: the Classic of Poetry tends toward couplets of four-character lines, grouped in rhymed quatrains; and, the Chuci follows this to some extent, but moves toward variations in line length.
In the Petrarchan sonnet, the turn tends to fall around the division between the first two quatrains and the sestet, while English sonnets usually place it at or near the beginning of the closing couplet.
It is composed of a series of quatrains ; the second and fourth lines of each stanza are repeated as the first and third lines of the next.
It was a modern epic in pentameter quatrains that established him as the preeminent poet of his generation, and was crucial in his attaining the posts of Poet Laureate (1668) and historiographer royal (1670).
Major works An Ottoman era manuscript depicting Rumi and Shams-e Tabrizi Rumi's poetry is often divided into various categories: the quatrains ( rubayāt ) and odes ( ghazal ) of the Divan, the six books of the Masnavi.
Many of the verses are paraphrased, and some of them cannot be confidently traced to any one of Khayyam's quatrains at all.
Many scholars believe that not all the attributed quatrains are authentic and some have been added to Khayyam's Diwan in later years for various reasons.
Most of the poems are single couplets or quatrains, although some are longer.
Some quatrains cover these disasters in overall terms; others concern a single person or small group of people.
The fact that the rubaiyat is a collection of quatrains and may be selected and rearranged subjectively to support one interpretation or another has led to widely differing versions.
The person matter involves the personal thoughts and feelings of a courtesan during the four seasons, into which the quatrains are individually assigned.
The third edition, with three hundred new quatrains, was reportedly printed in 1558, but now only survives as part of the omnibus edition that was published after his death in 1568.
Common combinations with quatrains
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the quatrains 3×
- of quatrains 3×
- quatrains and 3×
- khayyam's quatrains 2×
- quatrains are 2×