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Collection of poems written with stanzas that have four lines. Stanzas of 4 lines are called Quatrains. A stanza in poetry is a group of lines usually separated by a blank line.
- Hope Is The Thing With Feathers
Emily Dickinson, born in 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, is...
- Short Christmas Poems
Published by Family Friend Poems December 2008 with...
- If You See My Dad In Heaven
In August we lost my husband's dad. He was a beautiful...
- In Good Time
At Family Friend Poems our goal is to publish poems that...
- A Psalm of Life
This inspiring poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, (1807 -...
- A Sense of Love
This is a simple poem simply created from my love of my...
- Hope Is The Thing With Feathers
Quatrain poems often tell a story, but numerous lyric poets have drawn on the power of the four-line stanza to express their personal thoughts and feelings, too. Let’s take a look at some of the best examples of quatrain poems in the English language, spanning almost half a millennium.
The Quatrain in Free Verse. Free verse is unrhymed and unmetered, and its stanzas (if it has them) can contain any number of lines. Quatrains appear in free verse with some frequency, but there aren't any rules or reasons behind their use. One example is this excerpt from the first section of Walt Whitman's iconic poem "Song of Myself":
Quatrain Example 1. Emily Dickinson’s poem 239, like many of her poems, is composed of quatrains: “Heaven”—is what I cannot reach! The Apple on the Tree— Provided it do hopeless—hang— That—”He aven” is—to Me!” Quatrain Example 2. A quatrain from Robert Frost’s famous poem, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”:
24 cze 2020 · Use quatrain examples from famous poems to learn about the four-line stanza and its different rhyme schemes.
‘Ballad metre’ is the term given to poems written in quatrains, usually of alternating tetrameter (four-foot) and trimeter (three-foot) lines, rhymed abcb. Ballads originally became popular in the late medieval period, and were designed to be sung and danced to: the word ‘ballad’ is derived from the Latin balar , ‘to dance’.
Quatrain poems are a popular and versatile verse form, consisting of four-line stanzas. These poems can have various rhyme schemes, with common patterns being AABB, ABAB, or ABBA. Quatrain poems give poets a concise structure to express their thoughts and emotions.
