different between quatrain vs kyrielle

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French quatrain.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kw?t.?e?n/

Noun

quatrain (plural quatrains)

1. A poem in four lines.
2. A stanza of four lines.

   Example:

   Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night,

   Has flung the Stone that puts the stars to flight:

   And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught

   The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of light.

Synonyms

• (four-line stanza): tetrastich

Translations

See also

• couplet
• tercet
• terzain
• cinquain
• sestet
• septet
• octave

French

Etymology

From quatre (“four”) +? -ain.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.t???/

Noun

quatrain m (plural quatrains)

1. quatrain (stanza of four lines)

English

Etymology

From French kyrielle.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k??i??l/

Noun

kyrielle (plural kyrielles)

1. (now rare) A long rigmarole.
2. A form of French verse written in rhyming couplets or quatrains, sometimes with a religious theme.

Anagrams

• lyrelike

French

Etymology

From kyrie +? -elle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ki.?j?l/

Noun

kyrielle f (plural kyrielles)

1. (dated) rigmarole
2. host, stream (de (“of”))
3. (prosody) kyrielle

Further reading

• “kyrielle” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).