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A quatrain is a type of stanza, or a complete poem, consisting of four lines. [1]Existing in a variety of forms, the quatrain appears in poems from the poetic traditions of various ancient civilizations including Persia, Ancient India, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, and China, and continues into the 21st century, [1] where it is seen in works published in many languages.
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". The poem, as given in Joseph Jacobs' 1890 rendition, is as follows: Illustration by Arthur Rackham in English Fairy Tales by Flora Annie Steel, 1918
In poetry, a ballad stanza is a type of a four-line stanza, known as a quatrain, most often found in the folk ballad.The ballad stanza consists of a total of four lines, with the first and third lines written in the iambic tetrameter and the second and fourth lines written in the iambic trimeter with a rhyme scheme of ABCB.
The quatrain has been widely discussed by historians as providing a representation of Pictish geography. [4] Giving territories mythical eponymous founders was a common literary practice throughout the classical and medieval periods, [7] and several of the names of Cruithne's sons clearly relate to known regions within the territory of the Picts. [3]
Classical Chinese poetry forms are poetry forms or modes which typify the traditional Chinese poems written in Literary Chinese or Classical Chinese.Classical Chinese poetry has various characteristic forms, some attested to as early as the publication of the Classic of Poetry, dating from a traditionally, and roughly, estimated time of around 10th–7th century BCE.
Vendler points out the increasingly distanced view of the speaker and his expression. By this quatrain "the speaker is wholly compounded… with clay, dissolved into dust." [15] The sonnet as a whole leads the reader's mind and emotion to the climax, line 12. [16] It is in this line that there is an affirmation of the return of love. [17]
Christmas is approaching, and Santa has already fed the reindeer before the long journey, the gifts are all packed and signed—there is very little left, and the colossal machine called ...
The effect is “like going for a short drive with a very fast driver: the first lines, even the first quatrain, are in low gear; then the second and third accelerate sharply, and ideas and metaphors flash past; and then there is a sudden throttling-back, and one glides to a stop in the couplet”. [1]