" One or two. I didn't think half as much of Newman as I do now, and I thought a great deal more of the tinkling quatrains of Fitzgerald. I could not read Goethe's Wilhelm Meister; now I think it his masterpiece" .

" 也有过一两次。 我过去对纽曼作品的看法远不如现在，而对菲茨杰拉德读音韵铿锵的四行诗则比现在的看法要好得。 候，我对歌德的《威廉·迈斯特》简直读不下去，而现在我觉得这是他的杰作。"

The English sonnet has three quatrains followed by a rhyming couplet.

这首英文十四行诗有三首四行诗，后面跟着一首押韵的对句诗。

(That is perhaps a painful fact, but then, you know, we cannot reform our forefathers.) During the first and second quatrain, sung decidedly forte, no can was filled.

（这也许是一个苦的事实， 但是，你知道的，我们不能改革我们的祖先。）在第一和第二绝句中， 唱得非常有力， 没有罐子装满。

The couplet usually ties the sonnet to one of the general themes of the series, leaving the quatrains free to develop the poetic intensity, which makes the separate sonnets so memorable.

对联通常将十四行诗与该列的一般主题之一联，让四行诗自由地发展诗意的强度，这使得单独的十四行诗如此令人难忘。

Some will perhaps think that they detect in the first quatrain an indication of a lost line, which later rhapsodists, failing in imaginative vigour, have supplied by the feeble device of iteration.

有些人可能会认为，他们在第一句四行诗中发现了一句丢失的台词的迹象，后的狂想曲家由于缺乏想象力，只能通过重复的微弱装置补充。

Skeptics believe that these quatrains were the equivalent of modern-day horoscopes, which were vague enough to fit many situations.

怀疑论者认为，这些绝句等同于现代的占星术，它们足够模糊以适应许情况。

With 3 exceptions(99,126 and 154)Shakespeare writes his sonnets in the popular English form, first developed by Surrey,of three quatrains and a couplet.

除了 3 个例外（99,126 和 154），莎士比亚以流行的英语形式创作他的十四行诗，该格式最初由萨里发展，由三首四行诗和一副对联组成。

More famously known as Nostradamus, he published his predictions as cryptic poems called quatrains.

更广为人知的名字是诺查丹玛斯，他将自己的预言以神秘诗的形式发表，称为绝句。

The so-called English sonnet is divided structurally into three quatrains and a couplet.

所谓的英国十四行诗在结构上分为三首四行诗和一副对联。

This poem is written in quatrains of iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter.

这首诗是用抑扬格四音节与 iambic 三音节交替的四行诗写成的。

In all these sonnets except the eighth, which is the usual" Shakespearean" kind, Spenser adopted hisown special form of linked quatrains, rhyming ababbcbccdcdee.

除了第八首通常是“莎士比亚”类型的十四行诗外，斯宾塞在所有这些十四行诗中都采用了他自己特殊的联动四行诗形式，押韵 ababbcbccdcdee。

Describing them using his usual cryptic quatrains, Nostradamus supposedly predicted Napoleon, Hitler, and a third antichrist who is yet to come.

诺查丹玛斯用他惯用的神秘绝句描述他们，据说预言了拿破仑、希特勒和第三个敌基督者尚未到。