5 adjectives to describe quatrain

Reading the five hundred or so authentic quatrains one asks, Which is the real Omar?

that influence, serviceable alike to the honor of the king and of France, which was to inspire Francis I., a century later, with this gallant quatrain: "If to win back poor captive France be aught, More honor, gentle Agnes, is thy weed, Than ere was due to deeds of virtue wrought By cloistered nun or pious hermit-breed.

When James Lane Allen's novel, The Reign of Law, came out (1900), a little quatrain by Lampton that appeared in The Bookman (September, 1900) swept like wildfire across the country, and was read by a hundred times as many people as the book itself: "The Reign of Law"?

They were introduced at a garden-party at Fulham, and Mr. WESTMORELAND overheard the memorable quatrain in which Madame CLARA BUTT greeted her sister-artist: "In our names we 're alike But in minstrelsyah

The conciseness and concentrated aptness of his expression alsotogether with a faculty of bringing into conjunction subtly contrasted thoughts, images, or feelingshas issued happily in short, concentrated pieces like 'An Untimely Thought,' 'Destiny,' and 'Identity,' and in a number of pointed and effective quatrains.

5 adjectives to describe  quatrain