quatrain
noun
a stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes.
quatrains
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pluralof quatrain.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Heyward’s quatrains mingle hope and irony, serenity and unease.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
That, more than the quatrains of Omar Khayyam or the gorgeous rugs of Kerman, is the soft power that matters to Tehran.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 19, 2022
He composed whole stand-alone quatrains that were later thrown out:
From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2020
Lock’s sonnets, like those of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, are English in form—three quatrains, rhymed abab cdcd efef, and a couplet, rhymed gg.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 5, 2019
“Quite so, and the ‘The Wreck of the Hesperus’ is written in quatrains as well, four lines to a stanza.”
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
