A quatorzain (from Italian quattordici or French quatorze, fourteen) is a poem of fourteen lines. Historically the term has often been used interchangeably...
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stanza Ballad stanza Biolet Burns stanza Chaubola Cinquain Couplet Ghazal Quatorzain Quatrain Quintain Rhyme royal Sapphic stanza Sestain Sestet Sonnet Tail...
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to leave a period of five lines between one rhyme and another. In the quatorzain, there is, properly speaking, no sestet, but a quatrain followed by a...
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quadruplicate, quatrain, quatre, quatrefoil quattuordecim quattuordecim- fourteen quatorzain, quatorze, quattuordecillion quiēs quiēt- rest acquiesce, acquiescence...
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formal variations were also introduced, including abandonment of the quatorzain limit – and even of rhyme altogether in modern times. Giacomo da Lentini...
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two rather than four lines. The term may also be used as a synonym for quatorzain, a 14-line poem, such as a sonnet. Poulter's measure is a meter consisting...
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edition). Paris: Société française d'éditions d'art, [1898]. London Types. Quatorzains by William Ernest Henley, illustrations by William Nicholson. London:...
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Italian stanza of eight 11-syllable lines, with a rhyme scheme of ABABABCC. Quatorzain Quatrain: a 4-line poem or stanza Quintain Rhyme royal: a stanza of seven...
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Laura, or an anthology of sonnets (on the Petrarchan model) and elegiac quatorzains (London 1814), the thesis is developed that beyond the sonnet's Sicilian...
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