A quatrain is a type of stanza, or a complete poem, consisting of four lines. Existing in a variety of forms, the quatrain appears in poems from the poetic... 7 KB (838 words) - 14:55, 27 September 2023 |
Decasyllabic quatrain is a poetic form in which each stanza consists of four lines of ten syllables each, usually with a rhyme scheme of AABB or ABAB.... 8 KB (1,173 words) - 19:17, 18 February 2023 |
Nostradamus (redirect from Quatrains of Nostradamus) his book Les Prophéties (published in 1555), a collection of 942 poetic quatrains allegedly predicting future events. Nostradamus's father's family had... 52 KB (6,295 words) - 20:00, 12 April 2024 |
Sonnet 116 (section Quatrain 1) careful, controlled, laborious…it defines and redefines its subject in each quatrain, and this subject becomes increasingly vulnerable. It starts out as motionless... 20 KB (3,171 words) - 04:05, 16 December 2023 |
Rubaʿi (redirect from Persian quatrain) poetry (or its derivative in English and other languages) in the form of a quatrain, consisting of four lines (four hemistichs). In classical Persian poetry... 7 KB (804 words) - 08:00, 13 April 2024 |
"Fee-fi-fo-fum" is the first line of a historical quatrain (or sometimes couplet) famous for its use in the classic English fairy tale "Jack and the Beanstalk"... 6 KB (680 words) - 08:41, 5 May 2024 |
Omar Khayyam (section The Moving Finger quatrain) tradition of attributing poetry to Omar Khayyam, written in the form of quatrains (rubāʿiyāt رباعیات). This poetry became widely known to the English-reading... 81 KB (9,190 words) - 00:51, 12 May 2024 |
Shairi (redirect from Rustavelian Quatrain) [ʃaiɾi]), also known as Rustavelian quatrain, is the name of a particular poetic form, or a monorhymed quatrain. It was used by the Georgian poet Shota... 2 KB (263 words) - 11:30, 29 August 2023 |
The Poem of Seven Steps (redirect from Quatrain of Seven Steps) The Seven Steps Verse, also known as the Quatrain of Seven Steps (traditional Chinese: 七步詩; simplified Chinese: 七步诗; pinyin: Qī Bù Shī; Cantonese Jyutping:... 11 KB (1,200 words) - 19:09, 10 August 2023 |