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A quatrain is a staza or poem of four lines with an A A B B rhyme scheme.
An example is Donna Brock's "The Mountain":
The mountain frames the sky (A)
As a shadow of an eagle flies by. (A)
With clouds hanging at its edge (B)
A climber proves his courage on its rocky ledge. (B)
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
by
Thomas Gray
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,
The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
The Mountain
Donna Brock
The mountain frames the sky (a)
As a shadow of an eagle flies by. (a)
With clouds hanging at its edge (b)
A climber proves his courage on its rocky ledge. (b)
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,
The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
A climber proves his courage on its rocky ledge. (b)
Did you notice that a quatrain is formed by two rhyming couplets? Easy! This pattern is called a a b b. The first line rhymes with the second (sky and by) and the third line rhymes with the fourth line (edge and ledge).
A quatrain poem is a type of stanza. This particular stanza has 4 lines in each section. A stanza is one of the divisions of a poem, composed of two or more lines usually characterized by a common pattern of meter, rhyme, and number of lines.
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Two households, both alike in dignity
In fair Verona where we lay our scene
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
There are two more in the prologue alone.
The famous "Sonnet dialogue" in Act 1 Scene 5 contains three quatrains followed by a couplet (thus forming a sonnet) which is then followed by the following quatrain:
"Thus, from my lips by thine my sin is purged"
"Then have my lips the sin that they have took"
"Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urged;
"Give me my sin again." "You kiss by the book"
All four quatrains have the rhyme scheme ABAB
a quatrain poem is a poem that has 4 lines with no set theme and no syllable count. the rhyme scheme is AABB OR ABAB OR ABCB OR ABBA
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What are some examples of good communication in romeo and Juliet?
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