What are some examples of quatrains in romeo and Juliet?

Answer 1

A quatrain is a staza or poem of four lines with an A A B B rhyme scheme.

An example is Donna Brock's "The Mountain":

The mountain frames the sky (A)

As a shadow of an eagle flies by. (A)

With clouds hanging at its edge (B)

A climber proves his courage on its rocky ledge. (B)

Answer 2

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

by

Thomas Gray

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,

The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,

The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,

And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

Answer 3

The Mountain

Donna Brock

The mountain frames the sky (a)

As a shadow of an eagle flies by. (a)

With clouds hanging at its edge (b)

A climber proves his courage on its rocky ledge. (b)

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,

The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,

The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,

And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

A climber proves his courage on its rocky ledge. (b)

Did you notice that a quatrain is formed by two rhyming couplets? Easy! This pattern is called a a b b. The first line rhymes with the second (sky and by) and the third line rhymes with the fourth line (edge and ledge).

Answer 4

A quatrain poem is a type of stanza. This particular stanza has 4 lines in each section. A stanza is one of the divisions of a poem, composed of two or more lines usually characterized by a common pattern of meter, rhyme, and number of lines.

If you want to learn more about stanzas, click here: stanza

Answer 5

Two households, both alike in dignity

In fair Verona where we lay our scene

From ancient grudge break to new mutiny

Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

There are two more in the prologue alone.

Answer 6

The famous "Sonnet dialogue" in Act 1 Scene 5 contains three quatrains followed by a couplet (thus forming a sonnet) which is then followed by the following quatrain:

"Thus, from my lips by thine my sin is purged"

"Then have my lips the sin that they have took"

"Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urged;

"Give me my sin again." "You kiss by the book"

All four quatrains have the rhyme scheme ABAB

Answer 7

a quatrain poem is a poem that has 4 lines with no set theme and no syllable count. the rhyme scheme is AABB OR ABAB OR ABCB OR ABBA

Answer 8

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"