List: Quatern

Quatern

A Quatern is a sixteen line French form composed of four quatrains.
It has a refrain that is in a different place in each quatrain.
The first line of stanza one is the second line of stanza two, third line of stanza three, and fourth line of stanza four. A quatern has eight syllables per line.
It does not have to be iambic or follow a set rhyme
scheme.
S1 refrain is L1
S2 refrain is L2
S3 refrain is L3
S4 refrain is L4

• The Net

  21 lines, 15 comments, on Jun 25 10:30 AM 2007. In Thoughts, Life, Quatern
• Thirteen Swings

  Quatern with an internal rhyme

  20 lines, 66 comments, on Aug 13 9:44 AM 2007. In Dark
• Black and White

  21 lines, 17 comments, on Aug 25 8:03 PM 2007. In Love, Sad, Quatern
• The Well

  23 lines, 19 comments, on Sep 15 4:49 PM 2007. In Life, Quatern
• I Do Have a Home

  23 lines, 18 comments, on Oct 26 8:39 AM 2007. In Life, Society, Quatern
• The Good Old Days

  Quatern

  21 lines, 14 comments, on Nov 4 2:01 PM 2007. In Life, Thoughts, Quatern
• Believe in Faeries

  21 lines, 12 comments, on Nov 11 7:14 PM 2007. In Fantasy, Quatern
• Tiny Dancers

  22 lines, 11 comments, on Jun 23 11:15 PM 2008. In Fantasy, Quatern
• Love Immortal

  19 lines, 16 comments, on Jul 1 11:55 AM 2008. In Spiritual, Thoughts, Fantasy, Vampyres, Dark
• Connection

  19 lines, 27 comments, on Oct 11 9:34 PM 2008. In Personal, Pain, Thoughts
• A Question of Mask

  Quatern

  20 lines, 31 comments, on Nov 4 7:48 AM 2008. In Noguest, Sad, Dark, Lost love, Depressed, Personal.
• Violated

  21 lines, 21 comments, on Nov 12 8:40 AM 2008. In Adult, Dark
• Tomorrow’s Slogan Today

  20 lines, 21 comments, on Jan 22 12:15 PM. In Society, Quatern
• The Bride of Perdition

  22 lines, 22 comments, on Feb 9 7:47 AM. In Dark, Fantasy, vampires
• The Library

  21 lines, 32 comments, on Feb 15 7:28 AM. In Humor
• The Chant of Lamia

  18 lines, 38 comments, on Mar 17 7:39 AM. In Dark
• These Walls Have Lips

  21 lines, 28 comments, on Apr 1 4:45 PM. In Dark
• Call of the Sea

  20 lines, 100 comments, on Apr 17 2:35 AM. In Fantasy, Thoughts
• To Each Man a Dragon

  20 lines, 13 comments, on May 12 8:31 AM. In Thoughts, Spiritual
• Dance with the Faeries

  Quatern

  19 lines, 23 comments, on Jun 18 10:35 AM. In Fantasy
• Bramble Path

  22 lines, 35 comments, on Aug 2 7:06 AM. In Society, Spiritual, Thoughts

• By me, right now

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