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Quadruplet
A four-syllable foot.
Quantitative Metre
Lines whose rhythm depends on the duration or length of time a line
takes to utter. That duration depends on whether a syllable is long or
short. Edmund Spenser's "Iambicum Trimetrum" is an example of trying
to adapt, in English, a metre natural to Greek and Latin.
Quantitive Verse
Verse which, rather than on the syllabic count or accent, is based on a
systematic succession of long and short syllables, i.e., syllables which
take a longer or shorter quantity of time to pronounce. When the lines
are properly read, with the speed of articulation determined by varying
vowel length and consonant groupings, the rhythmic pattern develops
naturally. The unit of measure in quantitive verse is the mora.
Quatorzain
A sonnet or any poem of fourteen lines.
Quatrain
A four-line stanza, rhyming abac or abcb (unbounded, or ballad), as in
"Sir Patrick Spence" and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Ryme of the
Ancient Mariner" aabb (a double couplet), abab (interlaced, alternate,
or heroic), as in Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country
Churchyard" abba (envelope or enclosed), as in Alfred lord Tennyson's
"In Memoriam" aaba, the stanza of Edward Fitzgerald's "The Rubáiyát
of Omar Khayyám."
Quintain
A five-line stanza, such as a limerick or Edmund Waller's "Go lovely
rose." Also called a cinquain.
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