“Unlock the Mystery of Poetry: Dive into Couplets and Quatrains with 101 Creative Writing Exercises”

"Unlock the Mystery of Poetry: Dive into Couplets and Quatrains with 101 Creative Writing Exercises"

A quatrain may contain one or two couplets. The nursery rhyme “Humpty Dumpty” is a quatrain of two couplets:

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty together again.

The Exercise

This is a three-part exercise. First write a couplet (two rhyming lines with the same meter or number of syllables). Then write a quatrain (it doesn’t have to include meter or rhymes). Finally, write a quatrain that consists of two couplets.

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