Meaning & use
quatrain
A stanza or short poem made up of exactly four lines, often with a set rhyme scheme.
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Each quatrain of the poem followed the same simple rhyme pattern of ABAB.
The student was asked to write a quatrain describing the changing seasons.
A note on using this word
Quatrains are among the most common stanza forms in English poetry, appearing in everything from nursery rhymes to sonnets.
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