quatrain

quat·rain  (kwtrn, kw-trn)

n.

A stanza or poem of four lines.

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[French, from Old French, from quatre, four, from Latin quattuor; see k^wetwer- in Indo-European roots.]

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quatrain

Noun

a stanza or poem of four lines [French, from Latin quattuor four]

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Noun

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quatrain - a stanza of four lines elegiac stanza - a quatrain in iambic pentameter with abab rhyme scheme heroic stanza - a quatrain consisting of two heroic couplets written in an elevated style; the rhyme scheme is abab stanza - a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem