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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He uses rhymed quatrains in equivalence to the strophic pattern evident in Horace's poem.
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Housman's style is no less vulnerable to the distortions of the rhymed quatrain .
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Like the quatrain poems it is funny at the same time as serious.
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The quatrain poems give the lie to that.
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The quatrains follow the progress of a child from his fortuitous birth to his first conscious communication with others.
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The rhythm slows down in the second quatrain where the s sounds begin to accumulate.