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Quatrains


  • Poems consisting of one or more four-line stanzas.
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    • Rubāʿī quatrains
    • Rubāʿīs
    • Rubaiyat
    • Rubaiyyat
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    • found: Baldick, C. The Oxford dictionary of literary terms, 2008:quatrain (A verse stanza of four lines, rhymed or (less often) unrhymed. The quatrain is the most commonly used stanza in English and most modern European languages.) rubáiyát (A sequence or collection of Arabic or Persian quatrains. The term is most often associated with The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859), a free English translation by Edward Fitzgerald of the 12th-century Persian poet's quatrains.)
    • found: Kennedy, X.J. The Longman dictionary of literary terms, c2006(Quatrain. A stanza consisting of four lines--for example, the ballad stanza. The quatrain is the most common stanza form used in English-language poetry.)
    • found: The Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics, c2012(Rubāʿī (pl. rubāʿīyāt). A monorhyme quatrain originating in the Persian trad. and subsequently adapted into other Islamicate lits. The term rubāʿī refers to the four hemistichs that comprise the quatrain; rubāʿī quatrains; rubāʿīs)
    • found: OCLC, Feb. 18, 2014(titles: The quatrains of ʻOmar Khayyām; Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam; Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám; The Rubaʻiyat of ʻUmar Khayyam; Masterpieces of Urdu rubaiyat; A thousand years of Persian rubáiyát; Rubaiyat and sonnets from a Persian garden; Mark Twain's Rubáiyát; 101 rubaiyat; The new rubaiyat of Stanley Berne; Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayaam; The Rubáiyyát of Bábá Táhir Oryán of Hamadán)
    • found: PoetrySoup website, Oct. 26, 2014(Quatrain poems; quatrain poetry. A stanza or poem consisting of four lines. In the basic form, Lines 2 and 4 must rhyme while having a similar number of syllables.)
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    • Poems consisting of one or more four-line stanzas.
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    • 2014-12-01: new
    • 2015-12-21: revised
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