quatrain

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a stanza or complete poem consisting of four lines

   The sonnet opens with a quatrain about the passing of time.

Borrowed from French quatrain, 'a set of four lines,' from quatre, 'four,' ultimately from Latin quattuor. The term can name one four-line stanza within a longer poem or a self-contained poem of four lines.

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