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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.
Discover the properties of quatrain poems, including the number of lines in a quatrain. Also, explore the rhyming style of these poems, including the AABB rhyming system and the ABAB rhyming...
16 kwi 2011 · Here is a happy quatrain poem about homework and reading, written by Madelyn Stoklosa from Bonnie Evancho's second grade classroom at Pinehurst Elementary in the Frontier Central School District in Lake View, New York.
Examples of Quatrains and a list of new poems in the correct poetic form and technique. Share and read short, long, best, and famous Quatrain poetry while accessing rules, format, types, and a comprehensive literary definition of a Quatrain.
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”:
Quatrains are most common in verse that uses both meter and rhyme, but they appear in all types of poetry. The lines of a quatrain vary in length depending on the type of verse being written: they can range from a single syllable to twenty syllables or more.
