QUATRAIN  , sometimes spelt Quartain (from Fr. quatre, four), a piece of See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse See also:

• COMPLETE

complete in four rhymed lines . The length or measure of the verse is immaterial, but they must be See also:

• BOUND, or BOUNDARY (from O. Fr. bonde, Med. Lat. bodena or butina, a frontier line)

bound together by a See also:

• RHYME

rhyme-arrangement . This See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form has always been popular for use in the See also:

• COMPOSITION
• COMPOSITION (Lat. compositio, from componere, to put together)

composition of epigrams, on See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of its brevity and neatness, and may be considered as a modification of the See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek or Latin See also:

• EPIGRAM

epigram at its concisest .