Quatrain Conclusions

The Quatrains are the building blocks of poems.
You’ll find them in a hundred thousand tomes.
And I have shown they’re highly flexible.
Ways purists often find contemptible.


In cascades, echoes, riffs, and waterfalls,
We learned that lines and phrases may repeat
While end-line spots are where most rhyme befalls
There’s other points where matching sounds can meet.


As we have looked at several special schemes,
Enough to make a poet’s head explode,
We rolled the line positions through their themes,
Reviewing how poetic cadence flows.


Then what we found with numbered syllables,
The very likes of 1,6.9.and 2,
Where real amazing scansion miracles
This book reveals in chapters unto you.


My fondest hope is that we’ve made it plain
That poet’s muse should never overlook
The simple fact that all the Quatrains reign,
Which is the stated purpose of this book.