Morning folks-
A quatrain is a poem, or a stanza within a poem, that consists always of four lines. It is the most common of all stanza forms in European poetry. In its narrow meaning, the term is restricted to a complete poem consisting of only four lines. In its broader sense, it includes any one of many four-verse stanza forms.
The rules -
This one is pretty easy. Write a quatrain where each line begins with “That’s the way”". All four lines should rhyme with each other. Then use the noun from the last line to start a new rhyme. Example:
That’s the way the cookie crumbles
That’s the way the old man mumbles
That’s the way the baby stumbles
That’s the way the bee bumbles
So the next rhyme would have to say something different about a bee in the first line.
as long as the first line in the responding post is different that the last line it follows, you are good
it doesn’t have to be like look and leer, which is similar; it can be completely different
let me try one
thats the way to softly state
thats the way to get a mate
thats the way to make a gate
thats the way to seal your fate
so the next line could be
that’s the way to create your fate…see not much different