| MERRILY | Word repeated four times before "Life is but a dream," in "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" |
| BOOM | Word repeated four times before "I want you in my room," in a Vengaboys song |
| DREAM | Life, in "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" |
| AZOIC | Geologic time before life |
| SANS | Word repeated four times in the last line of Shakespeare's "All the world's a stage" speech |
| HATE | Word repeated four times in the chorus of Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off" |
| CHESIL | Winchester (_ _ _ _ _ _) station - in operation four times before final closure in 1961 (6) |
| NOEL | Word sung four times before "Born is the King of Israel" |
| SARA | Teasdale who wrote "Life is but thought" |
| ADREAM | "Life is but ___" |
| POE | "All that we see or seem / Is but a dream within a dream" writer |
| SEE | 'All that we ___ or seem is but a dream within a dream': Poe |
| DOIDARE | Phrase repeated four times in T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
| ELIOT | "To be a poet is have a soul so quick to discern that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel that discernment is but a hand playing with finely ordered variety on the chords of emotion-a |
| TRIREME | Row, row, row your boat - this boat! (7) |
| DOO | Repeated four times, a 1974 Rolling Stones hit |
| MMM | Repeated four times a song by Crash Test Dummies |
| ONO | Her full name has just one vowel repeated four times (aaaaand this entry officially jumps the shark) |
| LIFEISBUTADREAM | "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" line |
| ROUNDRULES | "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" regulations? |
