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QUATRAIN

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 723 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PYR-RAY

QUATRAIN , sometimes spelt Quartain (from Fr. quatre, four), a piece of

verse

VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a
line
- LINE
or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

complete

COMPLETE

in four rhymed lines. The length or measure of the

verse

VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a
line
- LINE
or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

is immaterial, but they must be

bound

BOUND, or BOUNDARY (from O. Fr. bonde, Med. Lat. bodena or butina, a frontier line)

together by a

rhyme

RHYME

-arrangement. This

form

FORM (Lat. forma)

has always been popular for use in the

composition

of epigrams, on

account

of its brevity and neatness, and may be considered as a modification of the

Greek

GREEK
GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

or Latin

epigram

EPIGRAM

at its concisest.

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