Decasyllabic quatrain is a poetic form in which each stanza consists of four lines of ten syllables each, usually with a rhyme scheme of AABB or ABAB. Examples of the decasyllabic quatrain in heroic couplets appear in some of the earliest texts in the English language, as Geoffrey Chaucer created the heroic couplet and used it in The Canterbury Tales.[1] The alternating form came to prominence in late 16th-century English poetry and became fashionable in the 17th century when it appeared in heroic poems by William Davenant and John Dryden. In the 18th century famous poets such as Thomas Gray continued to use the form in works such as "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard".[2][3] Shakespearean Sonnets, comprising 3 quatrains of iambic pentameter followed by a final couplet, as well as later poems in blank verse have displayed the various uses of the decasyllabic quatrain throughout the history of English Poetry.[4]
^ Saintsbury, George. A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day.Macmillan and Co. (1908) p.362
^ Marshall, John. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Orlando John Stevenson. Select Poems: Being the Literature Prescribed for the Junior Matriculation and Junior Leaving Examinations, 1905. Copp, Clark Co. (1905) p.191
^Gwynne Blakemore and Anthony Hect. The Sonnets by William Shakespeare. Cambridge University Press (1996) p.11
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