Word: quatrain
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...Bushnell didn't write the couplet or quatrain though it floated around under his aegis for a long time. But he sent it to Dean Frederick Scheetz Jones of Yale, and Jones wrote a reply which undertook to tell a cockeyed world the kind of town New Haven was or is. ... This is what Dean Jones wrote...
...possible that you, who have followed the Abdication and the Coronation with such care, have missed the following quatrain? It was written, I have been told, by a young English poet, whose name I unfortunately do not know; and it was published, I believe, in a London newspaper. The Latin word for Canterbury is, as you are aware, cantuar; and the venerable Archbishop Lang must have had a twinge of conscience if his eyes fell upon these lines...
Personal satire is almost absent, though there is a terse and unkind quatrain about Ernest Hemingway, which is at the same time a parody of Longfellow's "Psalm of Life." Nor has Cummings forgotten his nursery rhymes...
...British Liberal campaign quatrain, parodying A. A. Milne's When We Were Very Voting...
...amusing mock-violence of her own irrelevant reactions, Mrs. Parker has written, in Laments for the Living, some first-rate dialogs. But when her climate curdles her to rhyme, her curtness often turns to slightly acidulous whey. Poetess Parker's ideas can usually be contained in a quatrain though she often lets them wander farther. Death and Taxes has a few neat quatrains...