Word: quatrain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even so, it was on campus that the giddy prom trotter's brainy side began to show. For as far back as she could remember, the muse had been coaxing her thoughts toward verse, most of it not much better than her first quatrain, composed...
...that supplied them with heartfelt admiration for purity and chivalry. Established themes from Shakespeare, the Bible and the Arthurian legends furnished ready references. In oils, the brotherhood tried to evoke the natural piety that a verse of St. Mark's, a pentameter of Dante's, or a quatrain of Keats's inspired. In short, they were sick of portrait puffery...
Godfrey Cabot had a daughter and four sons (including U.S. Ambassador to Poland John Moors Cabot), 14 grandchildren and 32 great-grandchildren. His pride of family was such that he could laugh at it. He delighted in the old quatrain...
Jeremy Johnson clears the air with his three highly sophisticated and competent poems. Deceptively light, his witty lines trip along with a simplicity that is as delightful as it, is difficult to effect. Here is a quatrain from Philosopher's Song...
...disposition to the consumption of Beecham's Pills, a laxative invented by his grandfather, a Lancashire horse doctor. Eventually the sale of Beecham's Pills rose to a million a day with the aid of a hymn book circulated free of charge and containing a famous quatrain...