英语词汇“quatrain”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

In poetry, a stanza is like a paragraph, and a quatrain is a stanza of exactly four lines, often with an alternating rhyme pattern.

Here’s a quatrain from the poem “Dreams” by Langston Hughes: “Hold fast to dreams / For when dreams go / Life is a barren field / Frozen with snow.” Most quatrains use alternating rhyme, like here with go and snow, and all quatrains have four lines, which explains why the French root of the word is quatre, meaning “four.” A quatrain can be one part of a long poem or an entire poem can be one quatrain — the choice is yours.

WORD FAMILY

quatrain: quatrains

USAGE EXAMPLES

He intoned his songs with serene gravity, revealing once again how carefully chiseled every one of his quatrains is.

New York Times(Nov 11, 2016)

Here is the first quatrain of that poem:

The New Yorker(Apr 23, 2016)

In “Company,” she uncannily channels what could be a lost quatrain from W.H.

Washington Post(Mar 16, 2016)

n a stanza of four lines

Hypo|Hyper

elegiac stanza

a quatrain in iambic pentameter with abab rhyme scheme

heroic stanza

a quatrain consisting of two heroic couplets written in an elevated style; the rhyme scheme is abab

stanza

a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem

单词	quatrain
释义	quatrain (once / 10775 pages) n In poetry, a stanza is like a paragraph, and a quatrain is a stanza of exactly four lines, often with an alternating rhyme pattern. Here’s a quatrain from the poem “Dreams” by Langston Hughes: “Hold fast to dreams / For when dreams go / Life is a barren field / Frozen with snow.” Most quatrains use alternating rhyme, like here with go and snow, and all quatrains have four lines, which explains why the French root of the word is quatre, meaning “four.” A quatrain can be one part of a long poem or an entire poem can be one quatrain — the choice is yours. WORD FAMILY quatrain: quatrains USAGE EXAMPLES He intoned his songs with serene gravity, revealing once again how carefully chiseled every one of his quatrains is. New York Times(Nov 11, 2016) Here is the first quatrain of that poem: The New Yorker(Apr 23, 2016) In “Company,” she uncannily channels what could be a lost quatrain from W.H. Washington Post(Mar 16, 2016) n a stanza of four lines Hypo\|Hyper elegiac stanza a quatrain in iambic pentameter with abab rhyme scheme heroic stanza a quatrain consisting of two heroic couplets written in an elevated style; the rhyme scheme is abab stanza a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
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