quatrain

quat·rain

Q0021800 (kwŏt′rān′, kwŏ-trān′)n. A stanza or poem of four lines.

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

quatrain

(ˈkwɒtreɪn) n (Poetry) a stanza or poem of four lines, esp one having alternate rhymes[C16: from French, from quatre four, from Latin quattuor]

quat•rain

(ˈkwɒ treɪn)

n. a stanza or poem of four lines, usu. with alternate rhymes. [1575–85; < French, =quatre four (< Latin quattuor) + -ain < Latin -ānus -an¹]

quatrain

A group of four lines, usually rhymed.

Thesaurus

Noun

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

Translations

quartinaкатренчетверостишие

quatrain

a stanza or poem of four lines, esp one having alternate rhymes

Quatrain

an individual stanza of four lines. The rhyming pattern in a quatrain is abab (alternating rhyme), aabb (plain rhyme), or abba (enclosing rhyme). Persian poetry and its imitations use the form aaba, and less frequently, aaaa.

The quatrain is used for inscriptions, epitaphs, epigrams, and apothegms. The four-line stanzas of sonnets are also called quatrains. The following poem by F. I. Tiutchev is an example of a quatrain as an independent verse:

Nam ne dano preduagadat’
Kak slovo nashe otzovetsia—
I nam sochuvstvie daetsia,
kak nam daetsia blagodaV ….

We are not given to foresee
What reaction our words will cause—
So we are given sympathy
As if we were given divine grace….

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noun a stanza of four lines

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