quatrains
- plural of quatrain.
Example Sentences
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Heyward’s quatrains mingle hope and irony, serenity and unease.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
That, more than the quatrains of Omar Khayyam or the gorgeous rugs of Kerman, is the soft power that matters to Tehran.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 19, 2022
Lock’s sonnets, like those of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, are English in form—three quatrains, rhymed abab cdcd efef, and a couplet, rhymed gg.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 5, 2019
Miraculously, Dawn arrived at this family gathering with valentines for each of us: heavy stock cards on which she’d painted pastel animals and written sweet quatrains.
From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 2019
“Quite so, and the ‘The Wreck of the Hesperus’ is written in quatrains as well, four lines to a stanza.”
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
