Quatrain
A quatrain is a poem or a stanza within a poem that consists of four lines.For example:
- Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
- In the forests of the night,
- What immortal hand or eye
- Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
From William Blake's "The Tyger"
At last we
cast away, without power to give the men.html">men.html">men.html">men.html">men succour, neither could we
in the same pinnace, or cock, or upon rafters, and such like means
save the men by every possible means. But all in vain, sith God had
up and down as near unto the wrack as was possible for us, looking out
ship.html">ship.html">ship freighted with great provision, gathered together with much
men, which perished to the number almost of a hundred souls. Amongst
in the city of Buda, called thereof Budoeus, who, of piety and zeal to
Latin tongue the gests and things worthy of remembrance, happening in
with the eloquent style of this orator and rare poet of our time.
Here also perished our Saxon refiner and discoverer of inestimable
heavy was the loss of the captain, Maurice Browne, a virtuous, honest,
men that ought to have been restrained, who showed himself a man
tragedy appeared, by report of them that escaped this wrack
past of recovering the ship, and that men began to give over, and to
life, by the pinnace at the stern of the ship; but refusing that
but used all means to exhort his people not to despair, nor so.
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