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mahawi61 asked in Arts & HumanitiesPoetry · 1 decade ago

what do you call a short four versed poem?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Quatrain.

    Any stanza, or verse, in a poem that consists of four lines.

    A poem that consists of only four lines

    This is one by William Blake and one of my favourites

    Tyger! Tyger! burning bright

    In the forests of the night,

    What immortal hand or eye

    Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

    and this is a sextain, a six line stanza by Byron

    She walks in beauty, like the night

    Of cloudless climes and starry skies;

    And all that's best of dark and bright

    Meet in her aspect and her eyes:

    Thus mellow'd to that tender light

    Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

    Another favourite

    Source(s): I have my sources
  • 1 decade ago

    A quatrain is a poem, or a stanza within a poem, that consists always of four lines. It is the most common of all stanza forms in European poetry. The rhyming patterns include aabb, abab, abba, abcb.

    In its narrow meaning, the term is restricted to a complete poem consisting of only four lines. In its broader sense,

    "it includes any one of many four-verse stanza forms."

  • Bill
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    I call it a short four versed poem.

  • 5 years ago

    The poems matches the title. I like the last bit - The four directions in my compass has always pointed straight to you. However, shouldn't it be "have" instead of "has"? Anyway, what makes a good poet?? A good poet is not necessarily famous and vice versa. If you have a passion (for poetry), you can always write cause' you simply enjoy so, simply for the heck of it. Yah???

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  • B
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Quatrain.

  • 1 decade ago

    Haiku maybe?

  • Sanju
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    "char" linena in hindi

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