A quatrain is a type of traditional rhyming short poem that is organized into four line stanzas. Stanzas are blocks of lines separated by a space or line break. They are the poetic equivalent of a paragraph in prose writing. Every four-line stanza has a rhyme scheme such as AABB,...
Here are the first two stanzas of the text: Am I a stone, and not a sheep, That I can stand, O Christ, beneath Thy cross, To number drop by drop Thy blood’s slow loss, And yet not weep? Not so those women loved Who with exceeding grief lamented Thee; Not so fallen Peter, ...
Geoffrey Chaucer’s contribution to English poetry lies chiefly in the fact that he introduced from France the rhymed stanzas of various types, especially what was later to be called ___. A the alliterative verse B the ballad C the heroic couplet D the blank verse答案...