Quatrain

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  • noun. A stanza or poem of four lines.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A stanza of four lines riming alternately.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A stanza of four lines rhyming alternately.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. a poem in four lines
  • noun. a stanza of four lines
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a stanza of four lines
    • Word Usage
    "It starts promisingly enough, with the gypsy Maleva's famous quatrain from the original: "Even a man who is pure in heart/And says his prayers by night/May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms/And the autumn moon is bright.""
    cross-reference
    cinquain  couplet  octave  septet  sestet  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    stanza  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    elegiac stanza  heroic stanza  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    alexandrine  asskicking  chiaroscuro  deferent  despond  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Spenserian stanza  antistrophe  book  burden  canto  
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