QUATRAIN

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A stanza of four lines

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("quatrain" is a kind of...):

stanza (a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "quatrain"):

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)

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