Word: quatrain
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...gritty voice and cannot sing very well. But neither can Bob Dylan or Randy Newman. Those who come to hear Zevon perform are not purists. They are beguiled by his lyrics, which typically are about Chicano hustlers, Sunset Strip women and hotel-bar bums. A quatrain from his ballad Desperados Under the Eaves: "And if California slides into the ocean/ Like the mystics and statistics say it will/ I predict this motel will be standing/ Until I pay my bill...
Auden was always more interested in experimenting with syntax than with things like meter and stanza and he was content to pour his unusual grammar into the molds of sonnet, quatrain and blank verse. His chief experiments in Thank You, Fog are with verbs. Poets who write in English, he tells us in one of his "Shorts," "can very easily turn nouns, if we wish, into verbs." He proceeds to do so with gusto, not only to nouns but almost every unit of syntax he can get his hands on. Some examples from a single new poem, "Archeology:" "vacancied long...
Rodino has had a lifelong fondness for fiction and poetry (his favorite poem: Milton's On His Blindness). As a young man he wrote a poem with a final quatrain that places wry perspective on the work now before him: "For those of you who will with scales in mind,/ The sins of erring man be called to weigh,/ Remember crossroads run a double way-/ And some go wrong who blessed with sight are blind...
...poem in a recent issue of the New Statesman contains the quatrain: Death shares the news with Françoise Hardy's/ Sex life, Lady Antonio's parties,/ Mr. Wilson's thousand days,/ Plots of the world's most famous plays...
...copy features a rerun double-bill. Steve Kaplan '68 treats "boy meets girls" scenes à la Stanley Kramer, DeMille, Bergman, and Busby Berkelye. The Berkeley pair (Sally and Dan) dance into the sunset doing something called The Balumbo, containing for my money at least one great quatrain...