No doubt many of these Quatrains seem unaccountable unless mystically interpreted; but many more as unaccountable unless literally.
I observed that very few of the more mystical Quatrains are in the Bodleian MS.
No doubt also many of the Quatrainsin the Teheran, as in the Calcutta, Copies, are spurious; such Rubaiyat being the common form of Epigram in Persia.
Four quatrains of it, or two eight-line stanzas, are the usual length of a hymnal selection, and editors can pick and choose anywhere among its expressive verses.
The division of the sestet into two distinct tercets is very rarely maintained; and that of the octave into quatrains is frequently neglected with impunity.
Italian, a 14-line stanza composed of twoquatrains riming abba and two tercets riming cde cde (cde dee, etc.
It consists of a series of quatrains abab, with the second and fourth lines of each stanza repeated chainwise as the first and third of the next stanza.
The quatrains must always rime abba, but the sestet may rime cdecde or cdcdcd or cdedce or cdedec, or almost any arrangement of two or three rimes which does not end in a couplet.
LXXIV - He Whistles on his Fingers and his Toes; there are many who may very justly consider this line as undignified and unrefined; but such readers should always remember that these quatrains may be taken as purely symbolical.
I do not think that this work would be complete without an attempt to identify these quatrains in the original texts which inspired them.
There are also two quatrains which appeared in the first edition only, and nine that appeared in the second edition only.
I observe that very few of the more mystical Quatrains are in the Bodleian MS.
Numbers of quatrains distinguished by the asterisk indicate that the quatrains were not in FitzGerald's first edition, but made their appearance in the second or subsequent editions.
It may be observed that the quatrains in this section are not so closely rendered from recognisable originals as the other quatrains composing FitzGerald's poem.
It may be that the irreligious and Epicurean quatrains were written in youth, and the Munajat in his riper years.
The legitimate sonnet consists of two quatrains and two tercets; as much skill, to say the least, is required for the management of the latter as of the former.
And he wrote these quatrains in Ogam, and then bade them farewell.
Five hundred quatrains from the original Persian, translated metrically by E.
Prophecies, pagan and Christian--quatrains fathered on Saint Moling and triads attributed to Merlin--were freely showered in his path.
Italian to Surrey's sonnet, with enclosing rhymes in the quatrainsinstead of crossed rhymes (cf.
The first part is formed of two quatrains (basi), i.
The usual scheme of his quatrains is a b b a, a b b a, but there is also a form with a third rhyme a b b a, a c c a, which frequently occurs.
This variety of the sonnet--which, we may note in passing, Surrey also extended into a special poetic form consisting of several such quatrains together with a final rhyming couplet (cf.
The twoquatrains have only two, the terzetti two or three rhymes.
He therefore imitated the Italian sonnet only in its form, and paid no regard to the relationship of its single parts or to the distribution of the contents through the quatrains and terzets.
The three quatrains in this form of the sonnet are connected by concatenatio, the final verse of each quatrain rhyming with the first line of the next, while the closing couplet stands separate.
In the same metre are the Nonsense Rhymes by Edward Lear,[178] as well as many other quatrainsof a similar kind, the humour of which is often somewhat coarse.
In the cities of the West you will find the Quatrains one of the most thoroughly read books in any club library.
Reading the five hundred or so authentic quatrains one asks, Which is the real Omar?
He speaks what often we do not dare to speak; one of his quatrains can be more easily quoted than some of those thoughts can be formulated.
But apart from their masterly technique, these Quatrains exhibit in their general tone the revolt of a clear intellect from the prevailing bigotry and fanaticism of an established religion.
It is not impossible that these two quatrains are cited from the prophet's elegy upon the last battle of Megiddo and the death of Josiah.
Address to Brian O'Rourke of the Bulwarks" (na murtha), a poem of seventy quatrains from Egerton MS.
Several other quatrains were read; then the Kisaki repeated hers:-- "THE SNOW.
The two latter quatrains are translated from Tsourai-Iouki, one of the most famous poets of Japan.
This decision was given in a short poem of four quatrains which is preserved in the preface to the "Martyrology" of Aengus.
But the quatrains may have alternate rhymes, and the sestet may consist of a quatrain and couplet or of interwoven triplets, as in the following schemes: a b a b a b a b c d c d e e; a b b a a b b a c d e c d e.
The rhymes of the first twoquatrains are usually the same; those of the sestet are variously arranged.
The employees are finding considerable difficulty in making twenty-three-line quatrains and at least half the force have gone home suffering from acute attacks of brainstormitis.
Quatrains have been increased from four lines to twenty-three, and the old stingy fourteen-line sonnet has been enlarged to fifty-four lines.
Sylvester dedicated the quatrainsto Prince Henry, and the copy in the British Museum contains an epigram in English in the handwriting of his brother, afterwards Charles I.
Five quatrains of which the first is reprinted as the first of Quatrains and Aphorisms in The Wanderings of Oisin, 1889.
Reprinted, as the sixth and second of Quatrains and Aphorisms in The Wanderings of Oisin, 1889.
Songs and important speeches are in quatrains of octosyllabic lines, the first and last rhyming, and the second and third.
FN#26] In the original Quichua, Ollantay makes his appeal to the Inca in quatrains of octosyllabic verses, the first line rhyming with the last, and the second with the third.
This ape, which is at least a hundred years old, and proportionately ugly, wrote those quatrains in our presence.
To these I added, in several smaller and different hands, other quatrains in praise of the King; and, having finished, I gave the parchment to the official.
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