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• n  a stanza of four lines

• At the end of his last show, in 1994, Kuralt recited this childlike quatrain: Remember, please, when I am gone, Twas aspiration led me on.
• This mediocre quatrain would be unfairly quoted without also four of his more typical sadly cadenced verses: My heart is a dark forest where no.
• The pen of a still vigorous, thoughtful contemporary could turn a new page in Britain's national poetryor scratch its final, deadening quatrain.