Definition of "quatrains" []

• Plural form of quatrain. (noun)

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• "When the damsel heard this elegy in quatrains she cried out"
• "The poems are composed in short quatrains of a slowly moving rhythm restrained by frequent pauses and occasional metrical irregularities, and thus they reflect with faithfulness the paternal agony with which they are filled."
• "He wrote in ambiguous, nearly inscrutable sets of phrases called quatrains that believers claim predicted everything from the American Civil War to Hitler to John F. Kennedy's assassination."