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villanelle
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...consisting normally of five three-lined stanzas and a final quatrain, with only two rhymes throughout. The first and third lines...succeeding stanzas as a refrain, and form a final couplet in the quatrain [ OED ]. The form has been much employed in light verse and...
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bob and wheel
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...with one stress and the following ‘wheel’ is a quatrain of short lines rhyming a b a b:…And al waz holз...bob’, leading into the ‘wheel’ of the quatrain.
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Nostradamus (1503-1566)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...Nostradamus's writings, a "century" referred to a grouping of one hundred verses, each verse being a four-line poem called a quatrain. It was this work that brought Nostradamus his fame. The 1555 edition contained the first three centuries and 53 quatrains...
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Jean de Meung (or Mehun) (ca. 1250-ca. 1305)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...it may well be doubted whether he was altogether sincere in his praises of alchemy. The poet composed a strongly stigmatic quatrain on womankind and the ladies of Charles IV's court resolved to revenge their affronted honor. Surrounding him in the royal...
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Burgess, Gelett (Frank)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
...Francisco, where he led a literary group, Les Jeunes, in editing The Lark (1895–97), in which appeared his quatrain, The Purple Cow , and his drawings of “ goops. ” His many books include light verse, stories, and drawings...
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Hubert and Jan van Eyck
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Moreover, not a single painting survives that can be attributed without question to Hubert. Indeed, but for the evidence of a quatrain painted on the frame of the famous Ghent Altarpiece, it is unlikely that his identity would have survived his own time. In...
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Édouard Manet
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...and Zola Manet's close friend and supporter during the early years was Charles Baudelaire, who, in 1862, had written a quatrain to accompany one of Manet's Spanish subjects, Lola de Valence, and the public, largely as a result of the strange atmosphere...
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Nostradamus
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
...generations. He called this book Centuries. He planned that there would be ten volumes, each containing one hundred predictions in quatrain form. In it, the next two thousand years of humanity would be forecast — through the year 3797. Prophecies brought...
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Literature: Persian
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...forms and content in Persian poetry. He experimented with individuating the lyric speaker and eschewed didactic intent; his quatrain-sequence poem "Legend" (1922) and other poems in the 1920s heralded the new sensibility. The 1930s marked the first...
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Venus and Adonis
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Venus and Adonis, an Ovidian poem by Shakespeare , published 1593, and written in sestra rima (i.e. a quatrain followed by a couplet). It was dedicated to Henry Wriothesley, earl of Southampton, who has been connected with the sonnets...
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