| The source texts are then reformed into single aphoristic lines, couplets, quatrains, and whole poems. |
| The play is written in verse which varies between alternately rhyming quatrains and stanzaic form, the effect being lyric rather than dramatic. |
| To analyze a sonnet into quatrains and tercets is to recognize it as a sonnet, and so to relate it to a conventional lyrical category. |
| Ballads are most often first-person narratives told in rhyming quatrains of Hiberno-English, and dealing with matters such as love and war. |
| Among the hardy perennials, quatrains and sonnets, we encounter such exotic metrical cultivars as sapphics and cretics. |
| His four-line verses or quatrains, each of two rhymed couplets, were written in groups of 100, known as Centuries. |
