Quatrains Sentence Examples

Tho this poem interrupts the sequence of sonnets, it, too, is most economical in its formal iambic quatrains.

With this clue, we may rearrange the other quatrains in alphabetical sequence, each according to its initial letter.

His songs are mostly written in the medieval quatrains (ferskeytla), and are generally of a humorous and satirical character; his convivial songs are known by heart by every modern Icelander; and although some of the poets of the present day are more admired, there is none who is more loved by the people.

Khayyam's quatrains possess the headiness of the Sufi debates prevalent during his times (1048-1122 ).

And he wrote these quatrains in ogam, and then bade them farewell.

The first quatrain furnishes four refrains which appear as the final lines of the following quatrains.

In fact throughout his entire book of Centuries, containing 942 quatrains, Nostradamus never once mentions Christ by name.

He is mainly cited as a predictor of the September 11 crisis, with fans saying the answer lies in Quatrains VI.97 and I.87.

There has also been much interpretation of Nostradamus' theories as signaling the end of the World in 2012, even though the quatrains referenced bear no discussion of 2012.

In a nod to the king of clairvoyance himself, many people immediately started comparing Nostradamus' quatrains (sections of his writing) to the 9/11 catastrophe.

The quatrains have been edited at Calcutta (1836) and Teheran (1857 and i862); text and French translation by 3.

If we divide the chapter into quatrains, like ch.

Although some of his quatrains are purely mystic and pantheistic, most of them bear quite another stamp; they are the breviary of a radical freethinker, who protests in the most forcible manner both against the narrowness, bigotry and uncompromising austerity of the orthodox ulema and the eccentricity, hypocrisy and wild ravings of advanced Sufis, whom he successfully combats with their own weapons, using the whole mystic terminology simply to ridicule mysticism itself.

There are quatrains in the Rubdiyat of Omar Khayyam and pessimistic verses in Ecclesiastes which might have been uttered by Aristippus ("Then commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing than to eat and to drink and to be merry; for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life which God giveth him under the sun").

The Dittochaeon is a series of quatrains, probably intended to explain forty-nine pictures of a basilica.

Omars great scientific fame, however, is nearly eclipsed by his still greater poetical renown, which he owes to his rubais or quatrains, a collection of about 500 epigrams. The peculiar form of the rubaiviz.