Complete Definition of "quatrain"

English
Noun
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en-noun

  1. a poem in four lines
  2. a stanza of four lines

#:Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night,
#:Has flung the Stone that puts the stars to flight:
#:And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
#:The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of light.

See also
couplet
tercet
cinquain
sestet
septet
octave

Category:Prosody

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