Converse of object

• rhyme: Here the three lines are crucial: four does remind one of rhyming quatrains.

• write: And he wrote these quatrains in ogam, and then bade them farewell.

• follow: The first quatrain furnishes four refrains which appear as the final lines of the following quatrains.

• contain: In fact throughout his entire book of Centuries, containing 942 quatrains, Nostradamus never once mentions Christ by name.

• have: It has 18 quatrains ( we'll just hear the beginning!

Adjective modifier

• first: In sonnet 7, the first quatrain ( Q1 ) contains the word looks, Q2 the word looks again.

• third: The third quatrain plays on the reciprocity of mirroring.

• iambic: Tho this poem interrupts the sequence of sonnets, it, too, is most economical in its formal iambic quatrains.

Noun used with modifier

• opening: I can still remember reading the opening quatrain of The Death of the Bird for the first time.