quatrain
noun
qua·train
| \ ˈkwä-ˌtrān
, kwä-ˈtrān\
, kwä-ˈtrān\
Definition of quatrain
: a unit or group of four lines of verse
Examples of quatrain in a Sentence
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There’s a quatrain of film adaptation news this week. — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, "This week in games: Sims 4 for free, a Just Cause film, and Frostbite's hairy tech demo," 24 May 2019 This example stitches poem (identified by the frame of quatrains) to prose (identified by the four lines inhabited by Absence). — Lauren Russell, New York Times, "Poem: Dream-Clung, Gone," 13 Oct. 2017 Kazemi, working under the name Tiny Subversions, also created the Harry Potter-themed , which generated rhyming quatrains that placed followers into a Hogwarts house. — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, "Introducing the New Yorker Poetry Bot," 6 Mar. 2017 Here is the first quatrain of that poem: That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. — The New Yorker, "Encounters with Shakespeare," 23 Apr. 2016These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'quatrain.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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quatrain
noun
English Language Learners Definition of quatrain
: a poem or verse that has four lines
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