Entertainment / Literature / Quatrain: Also sometimes used interchangeably with 'stave,' a quatrain is a stanza of four lines, often rhyming in an ABAB pattern. Three quatrains form the main body of a Shakespearean or English sonnet along with a final couplet. See sonnet and rubaiyat.
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Lifestyle / Poetry / Ballad Stanza: Quatrain rhyming abcb and alternating four-stress and three-stress lines. MORE
Lifestyle / Poetry / Little Willy: A comic verse form, often a quatrain rhyming aabb but really identified by its content, the gruesome fate of 'little willy' or a comparable figure. The form, popularized by harry graham (1874-1936), i MORE
Lifestyle / Poetry / Curtal Sonnet: A short sonnet devised by gerard manley hopkins that maintains the proportions of the italian form (6:4.5 to 8:6), substituting two six-stress tercets for two quatrains in the octave (rhyming abc abc) MORE
Lifestyle / Poetry / Elegiac Stanza: A quatrain with the rhyme scheme abab written in iambic pentameter. See also distich. MORE
Lifestyle / Poetry / Poulters Measure: Couplets in which a twelve-syllable line rhymes with a fourteen-syllable line. Chapman uses this form in his translation of homer. Hymn writers split the couplet into a quatrain (6 6 8 6), as did ball MORE
Entertainment / Literature / English Sonnet: Another term for a Shakespearean sonnet. See discussion under sonnet, or click here to download a PDF handout. MORE