Definition of Quatorzains. Meaning of Quatorzains. Synonyms of Quatorzains

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Definition of Quatorzains

Quatorzain
Quatorzain Qua*torz"ain, n. [See Quatorze.] A poem of fourteen lines; a sonnet. --R. H. Stoddard.

Meaning of Quatorzains from wikipedia

- Various writers have tried to draw distinctions between "true" sonnets and quatorzains. Nowadays the term is seldom used, and when it is, it usually is used...
- stanza Ballad stanza Biolet Burns stanza Chaubola Cinquain Couplet Ghazal Quatorzain Quatrain Quintain Rhyme royal Sapphic stanza Sestain Sestet Sonnet Tail...
- was "Altarwise by owl-light" (1935), ten irregular and barely rhyming quatorzains by Dylan Thomas in his most opaque manner. In 1978 two later innovatory...
- quadruplicate, quatrain, quatre, quatrefoil quattuordecim quattuordecim- fourteen quatorzain, quatorze, quattuordecillion quiēs quiēt- rest acquiesce, acquiescence...
- 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...
- edition). Paris: Société française d'éditions d'art, [1898]. London Types. Quatorzains by William Ernest Henley, illustrations by William Nicholson. London:...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...