n. a stanza or poem or four lines. Here is an example of a quatrain from Thomas Gray's Eligy Written in a country Churchyard. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The Lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plod his weary way, And Leaves the world to darkness and to me.3
a four-lined, rhyming poem or stanza
a four-lined stanza or poem
a four line poem with a rhyme scheme of abab
a four-line section of verse
a piece of a poem similar to a paragraph with extra rules
a poem consisting of four lines of verse with a specific rhyming scheme
a verse sequence consisting of four lines, usually of the rhyming pattern xaxa, abba or abab
A stanza / group of 4 lines usually with alternate rhymes
A stanza or poem of four lines.
A four line stanza. Quatrains are most commonly seen in English verse. See Also: BALLAD STANZA, HEROIC STANZA
a four-line, typically rhyming unit of verse
A quatrain is a four line stanza.
a poem with four lines consisting of a specific rhyme scheme (ex: aabb or abab)
A quatrain is a poem or a stanza within a poem that consists of four lines. It is the most common of all stanza forms in European poetry.
