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quatrain

/kwo-treyn/US // ˈkwɒ treɪn //UK // (ˈkwɒtreɪn) //

四言诗,四行诗,四重奏,四句话

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes.

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Examples

  • Who was the most erotic poet of the late Renaissance and early Baroque, when the quatrain reached its courtly zenith?

  • The commonest stanza is a quatrain consisting of four heptasyllabic lines with the rhyme at the end of the couplet.

  • Don Tiburcio converted into a quatrain—two feet, one longer than the other, between two crutches!

  • A stanza of two lines is called a couplet; of three lines, a triplet; of four lines, a quatrain.

  • It is divided into two parts: the first consisting of an octave or double quatrain, and the other of a sestet.

  • The parodist who wrote the following newspaper quatrain was no enemy of the automobile in spite of his cynicism.